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

The terms of the reopened are expected to be finished in November, with the next oyster season slated to open Jan. 1, 2026.

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

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is considering reopening Apalachicola Bay to commercial and ...

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

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

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

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 ...

TALLAHASSEE — State wildlife officials could allow oyster harvesting in part of Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola Bay, where ...

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

The bay has long been known for its oysters, once supplying more than 90 percent of Florida’s oysters and 10 percent of the oysters sold nationally. But the fishery collapsed in 2013.

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