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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 ...
Oysters and Manila clams distributed around the country have been recalled due to possible contamination with the highly infectious norovirus.. The shellfish were distributed to restaurants and ...
The oysters in question were sold under the names Fanny Bay, Buckley Bay and Royal Miyagi oysters that were harvested in British Columbia between Dec. 1, 2024, and Dec. 9, 2024.
Some mollusc species are commercially exploited and shipped as part of the international trade in shellfish; other species are harvested, sold and consumed locally. Some species are collected and eaten locally but are rarely bought and sold. A few species of molluscs are not commonly eaten now, but were eaten in historical or prehistoric times.
During the harvesting seasons, people with permits now have to shuck their oysters on the beach to keep from depleting the oyster beds that the spat grow on. There is still a market for Olympia oysters, in which farms commercially grow and sell them. This helps prevent the depletion of the native wild Ostrea lurida.
Commercial oyster farming was common in the bay until 1995, when the Texas Department of State Health Services suspended the practice, due to an unhealthy annual average zinc level of nearly 2500 mg/kg in oysters, [24] which as filter feeders, are affected by high levels of zinc in the water.
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The five most well-known oysters — the only ones commercially harvested, grown, and sold in the United States — are Pacific oysters, Kumamoto oysters, Atlantic (or Eastern) oysters, Olympia ...