The Mississippi Gulf Coast will have an oyster season for the first time since 2018. The state Department of Marine Resources announced in a statement Wednesday that the season will open at sunrise, Nov. 13, in eight harvesting areas. But the season will last only 10 days.
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The season arrives with the approach of Thanksgiving, when residents look forward to including oysters in holiday spreads.But flooding has in subsequent years, decimated the beds, diluting salinity in the Mississippi Sound to the point that oysters couldn’t survive,In 2019, Mississippi River water released through the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Louisiana killed almost all the oysters on Mississippi’s most productive reefs, which are in the western sound.
With a limited season, Spraggins said, the agency wants to avoid fragile reefs being over-fished so that oyster growth can be preserved.
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