date:Apr 28, 2014
f the Louisiana Oyster Task Force, told SeafoodSource.
The shortage of high quality oysters is significant, since the Gulf produces an estimated 70 percent of U.S. oysters.
Since oysters take around three years to reach full maturity, Gulf oystermen and buyers believe they are seeing the effects of the oil spill. The most logical thing is the oil spill, Tesvich said.
Areas that once produced abundantly a few years ago are barren, said Wilber Collins, owner of Collins Oyster Company and a memb