Their journey from the Grand Isle lab to a New Orleans restaurant is typical for farmed Louisiana oysters. Unlike traditional ...

The campaign promotes the first-ever regional umbrella brand uniting Grand Isle products of innovative off-bottom oyster cultivation, which was born in Grand Isle and has been adopted as a sustainable ...

In this episode of Louisiana Coastal Cooking we travel to Grand Isle, one of the prime spots for off-bottom oyster cultivation, to meet a pioneer in the state’s new aquaculture industry.

Off-bottom farms, also called alternative oyster culture ... Grand Isle opened its first aquaculture park about 10 years ago in Caminada Bay, a 25-acre space with eight commercial oyster farm ...

(WVUE) - Jefferson Parish is doubling down on a growing aquaculture industry wth hopes ... “Most of us get seed in July,” said off-bottom oyster farmer Buzzy Besson. “A fast grower can ...

The Nature Conservancy and The Pew Charitable Trusts run the program, which is known as Supporting Oyster Aquaculture and ... which kicked off last year with $6.3 million in funding from ...

president of Big Island Aquaculture, an oyster farm based in a creek near the mouth of the York River. He estimated that he loses 30%-40% of his triploids annually to the mysterious die-off.

The same survey found approximately 1,000 certified aquaculture farms in Florida ... the state which controls the location of oyster reefs. The "off bottom" reefs don't touch the water's base ...

In 2020, Louisiana Sea Grant allocated $1.8 million to help off-bottom oyster farmers. Ida destroyed one of the newly established aquaculture parks on the island, but the method bounced back ...