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

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

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

During their meeting Thursday, commissioners agreed to open a limited 94-acre harvesting area to any fisher that qualifies.

More than a decade after the oyster industry collapsed in Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola Bay, state wildlife officials gave ...

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

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 has agreed to reopen Apalachicola Bay wild oyster harvesting on ...

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

A long five-year wait to return to the waters of Apalachicola Bay for wild oyster harvesters may be nearing an end.

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of Environmental Protection on Monday denied a permit to drill for oil near the Apalachicola River, upholding recommendations of an administrative law judge ...