Fishermen on Alabama’s coast are gearing up for this fall’s oyster season. But though the forecast shows that the oyster harvest will be comparable to last year’s, it’s a shadow of what the ...

Clarence “Duck” Higgins said that he, like many oyster harvesters in Bayou La Batre, showed up at a Wednesday meeting expecting state officials to shut down the upcoming wild oyster harvest. That didn ...

Andy Depaola looks out across Mobile Bay, where water laps against the once-hidden pilings of his neighbors’ piers. For centuries, the bay’s thriving oyster reefs created prime habitats for hundreds ...