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 ...

In a good year, the Gulf of Mexico produces up to 500 million pounds of raw, shucked oysters that help feed the economies of Gulf states like Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. But the industry has ...

A Gulf Shores High School student counts the number of oysters in a cluster at the Little Lagoon Preservation Society’s oyster gardens in Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Feb. 9, 2024. These oysters are part ...