Apalachicola Region Trying to Recover After Losing Water War, Oyster Industry

The jobs lost in the Apalachicola Bay’s shuttered oyster industry won’t be easy to replace. But green shoots are sprouting in the form of two new industries about 23 miles away.

Cumbrae Oysters Firm Strikes Deal Double in Size and Take Products Global

May 18, 2021 Largs & Millport

PEEL Ports has struck a deal with seafood specialists Cumbrae Oysters Ltd on a new 15-year lease at Hunterston Port and Resource Centre (PARC) on the Clyde coast.

Alliance Rubber Company Launches The Fully-Tested and Approved Seafood Banding Machine

April 22, 2021 Alliance Rubber Company

Alliance Rubber Company is pleased to announce the launch of the first fully-tested and approved Seafood Banding Machine for lobsters and oysters. This machine provides consistent application speeds which, in turn, significantly increases the amount of seafood sent to market.

Oyster Aquaculture Partnership Offers New Funding For Chesapeake Watermen

The Virginia Institute of Marine Science has again partnered with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to help support ongoing efforts to restore oyster beds on private shellfish grounds in the state’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay.

They Sell Shellfish Shares by the Seashore: A Surge of Oyster CSAs

Since Michael Gilman took out his first leases in 2010, almost 100 percent of the cage-grown oysters that he produces for Indian River Shellfish were sold to restaurants and other wholesale accounts. The global coronavirus pandemic changed all that.