Texas Oyster Problems Again

[Gumbo Man]

This situation with Texas oysters is really getting bad again with the season barely getting started 5 weeks ago. I am getting news of oysters from “ Texas 1” area which is part of East Galveston bay that are contaminated and should be thrown away due to numerous reports of people getting sick. I always thought that by filling in Rollover Pass that part of the bay would become stagnant without the constant flow of fresh water. Other areas are being closed as well because of over harvest so the few reefs that will be available to oyster men will be depleted in short order im sure. We took oysters off of our menu for 9 months this year because of ridiculous prices due to availability. We just started selling them again November 1st but it don’t look very promising that we will keep doing so.

[toledo]

Its freaking hot! Might not have first frost til after Christmas.

[Snowflake Killa]

I don't understand why they filled Rollover

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[Bullseye07]

It’s not just a TX problem. Oyster harvesting areas are being shut down all over. Apalachicola bay in Florida has historically produced 90% of Florida’s and 10% of the country’s oyster. It’s been shut down since 2020 and won’t open back up until 2025.


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[CaptainDave]

I don't understand why they filled Rollover

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Money.

The intercoastal canal had to be dredged constantly due to the fill in from the pass.

The closing was a controversial issue, however, the pass itself was man made and not natural.

I don't know, but some people believed the influx of sea water into the back of East Bay was a bad thing for the habitat, not the other way around.

As for the oyster issue, I blame it more on over harvesting and weather, not the closing of the pass itself. As stated, this is not just a TX problem.

[S-3 Ranch]

Just switch to farm oysters?
Wild oysters are pastit/ obsolete according to TAMU CC marine science

https://today.tamu.edu/2020/01/29/texas-am-university-system-cooking-up-its-own-brand-of-oysters/

https://www.pangeashellfish.com/blog/the-argument-for-farmed-oysters

[Gumbo Man]

Just switch to farm oysters?
Wild oysters are pastit/ obsolete according to TAMU CC marine science
https://today.tamu.edu/2020/01/29/te...nd-of-oysters/

That’s where the industry is headed but just like Green Energy, it doesn’t happen overnight.

[Mayhem]

Those oyster boats were raping east matagorda recently.


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[S-3 Ranch]

Those oyster boats were raping east matagorda recently.


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And every other bay from Brazil to Canada
I would love to have oysters back growing on my cousins place in tivolie and sea drift, but TP&W let’s the commercial fishermen rape the bay and marsh

[Man]

Just switch to farm oysters?
Wild oysters are pastit/ obsolete according to TAMU CC marine science

I always see all those oyster farms in the water in China/Hong Kong. I understand the benefit, but thousands of visible cages draped across the bay are an eyesore. And those areas become off limits and unfishable. Guess it is what it is though.