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

TALLAHASSEE ― More than a decade after the oyster industry collapsed in Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola Bay, state wildlife officials Thursday gave preliminary approval Thursday to reopen some oyster ...

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 is moving forward with partially reopening the Apalachicola Bay for ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

At a meeting on Thursday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission approved to partially reopen the Apalachicola ...

By 1896, Apalachicola was exporting 50,000 cans of oysters per day, led by the Ruge Brothers Canning company and Bay City Packing Company. The market continued to prosper with ebbs and flows ...