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  2. Harte Research Institute offers free program to encourage ...

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    The Harte Research Institute is offering a free online program on oyster farming through a $5.1 million TCEQ grant.

  3. Governor appoints Coastal Bend residents to oyster farming ...

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    Several Coastal Bend residents were named to a state advisory board for commercial oyster mariculture, an industry with local connections.

  4. Climate change, overharvesting exacerbating Texas oyster decline

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    For the second year in a row, Texas has closed the majority of its public oyster reefs for harvesting due to declining populations. Wildlife officials say these dwindling numbers are caused by ...

  5. Oyster farming - Wikipedia

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    Oyster farming is an aquaculture (or mariculture) practice in which oysters are bred and raised mainly for their pearls, shells and inner organ tissue, which is eaten.Oyster farming was practiced by the ancient Romans as early as the 1st century BC on the Italian peninsula [1] [2] and later in Britain for export to Rome.

  6. Oyster - Wikipedia

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    Other large oyster farming areas in the US include the bays and estuaries along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from Apalachicola, Florida, in the east to Galveston, Texas, in the west. Large beds of edible oysters are also found in Japan and Australia.

  7. Mariculture - Wikipedia

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    Mariculture, sometimes called marine farming or marine aquaculture, [1] is a branch of aquaculture involving the cultivation of marine organisms for food and other animal products, in seawater. Subsets of it include ( offshore mariculture ), fish farms built on littoral waters ( inshore mariculture ), or in artificial tanks , ponds or raceways ...

  8. Texas oyster season opens Nov. 1 - AOL

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    Oct. 25—AUSTIN — Per regulation, the Texas commercial and recreational public oyster harvest season opens Nov. 1 and closes April 30, 2024. In an effort to protect and restore oyster reefs ...

  9. Aransas Bay - Wikipedia

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    By this time, the meatpacking industry near Aransas Bay reached its prime. Prior to the decline of the industry in the area, in 1880, 93% of the beef from Texas slaughterhouses were processed in Rockport-Fulton. [2] Along with fishing, oyster farming and most notably shrimping became major industries on the bay in the early 20th century.