Pages tagged Gulf Coast
Caminada Bay
Cage-grown Louisiana oysters from Bright Side Oyster Co., begun in 2018 with seed won from Murder Point in an Instagram contest. Market size in under eight months.
Copano Bay
Site of Texas's first permitted oyster farm, Brad Lomax's Texas Oyster Ranch, after the state legalized oyster mariculture in 2019. The oysters are sold as Copano Unos.
Cypress Point
Farmed Gulf oysters from Oyster Bay at Spring Creek, Florida, sold as Little Honeys. Jody Houck, a retired engineer, and her husband Dewey started in 2019.
Grand Isle
Louisiana's off-bottom oyster district: a 25-acre zone set up in 2014, and since April 2025 a shared brand, Grand Isle Jewels, for eight farmers' cage-grown oysters.
Matagorda Pearls
Texas farmed oysters from DJ's Oyster Company at Palacios, permitted in August 2022. Hurricane Beryl destroyed 100 cages in July 2024; the farm carried on.
Barataria Bay
A Louisiana bay between the Mississippi and the Gulf, at the center of a fight between rebuilding a sinking coast and keeping oyster water salty.
Galveston Bay
The Texas bay whose reefs were smothered by Hurricane Ike's surge. Wild harvest now depends on which areas pass state sampling each season.
Mississippi Sound
Once a major wild oyster ground on the Gulf. River water diverted to protect New Orleans in 2019 killed almost all of it, and the reefs have not recovered.
Post-Harvest Processed Oysters
A treated raw oyster is safer, and often already shucked and no longer alive. The science of high pressure processing, and what it does and does not change.
Murder Point
A shrimping family's off-bottom Gulf oyster, grown in floating baskets and named after a deadly fight over an oyster lease.
Apalachicola
Florida's great tonged oyster, lost in the 2012 collapse after years of low river flow. A two-month season returned in 2026 on about 500 acres.