For the first time in over five years, working watermen will head out into the Apalachicola Bay on New Year's Day to harvest ...

After a 5-year freeze, the Apalachicola Bay has reopened for oyster harvesting, giving hope and new opportunities to the ...

The controversial reopening of Apalachicola Bay will test whether its once-sustainable local food system is still possible.

The Apalachicola Bay used to supply 90% of Florida's oysters, but after a drought and a major oil spill, it collapsed in 2012. An administrative law judge is considering allowing a permit to drill for ...

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis kept it real in the Panhandle Thursday morning. “I don’t know what S.O.B. is going to succeed me in this office, but they aren’t going to have ...

EASTPOINT — Shannon Hartsfield was raised on the water. As a fourth generation oysterman, typical young boy memories of sleepovers with friends and the uncanny wits of popular cartoons barely ever ...

River view from Boss Oyster in Apalachicola, Florida. (File photo) U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today declared a commercial fishery failure of the oysters in Apalachicola Bay, paving the ...

EASTPOINT — Mike Millender surveyed the washed-out back end of his Island View Seafood store on the banks of Apalachicola Bay last week and described his vision of a bailout. “I wish the land ...

APALACHICOLA, Florida -- Less than three years ago, the Apalachicola Bay oyster fishery was one of the most productive in the nation. Now Florida officials and a group representing the commercial ...

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