Florida wildlife officials have given preliminary approval to a plan to reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting, five ...

FWC votes yes to preliminary guidelines to partially reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting. The bay has been closed ...

During its Thursday meeting, the FWC proposed a new management framework for commercial and recreational oyster harvest in ...

At a meeting on Thursday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission approved to partially reopen the Apalachicola Bay after a 5-year closure.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is moving forward with partially reopening the Apalachicola Bay for ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission agreed to consider rules in November reopening the iconic fishery in ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has agreed to reopen Apalachicola Bay wild oyster harvesting on ...

More than a decade after the oyster industry collapsed in Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola Bay, state wildlife officials ...

Thursday morning, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted to approve preliminary guidelines that would ...

The oyster industry once defined the Apalachicola community, both culturally and economically, until the industry collapsed ...

The area once supplied more than 90 percent of Florida’s oysters and 10 percent of the oysters sold nationally.

The bay was declared a federal fishery disaster in 2013. Now, with less fresh water reaching the bay, its salinity has increased --- which in turn undermines the health of the oyster harvest.