Starting Sunday, oyster enthusiasts will once again be free to pick up their rakes and tongs and harvest Maryland’s signature shellfish delicacy from the floor of the Chesapeake Bay and its ...

In his youth, each oyster boat could legally harvest 20, 60-pound sacks of wild oysters per day. Most boats were crewed by two-person teams, one who would tong while the other culled. "When you ...

Not following South Carolina’s shellfish harvesting laws can lead to fines or jail time. Here are rules for harvesting oysters this season.

Under either option, watermen harvesting oysters with less efficient hand tongs or by diving to hand-harvest them would also be able to continue everywhere until March 31. Under a third option, DNR ...

There probably have not been this many oysters in Virginia waters in 35 years, and that means watermen are likely to see this season’s harvest top 300,000 bushels for the first time since the ...

On a good day, Sam Walsh can haul in up to 1,000 oysters from the Indian River Lagoon off Ponce Inlet. But Walsh doesn't harvest the tasty mollusks by scooping them up by hand or using tongs to ...

Here are rules for harvesting oysters this season. Environment Want to harvest oysters in ... It is illegal to use scoops, scrapes, tongs, or dredges to take shellfish without a permit.

Native Americans, too, ate plenty of oysters, occasionally harvesting them and feasting for days. Early colonists ate so many oysters that the population of the mollusks dwindled to dangerously ...

Oyster restoration efforts in the Chesapeake Bay have yielded great results, so Maryland DNR announced it will stay the ...

The 2024-2025 Shellfish Harvest season begins October 1st. Oyster harvesting is a long standing Lowcountry tradition. Whethe. Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:13:10 GMT (1751141590336) Story Infinite Scroll ...

Based in Maryland, he gets up around four in the morning to head out and dredge and tong for oysters. A lot changes over the course of 48 years, and one of those things is that Harrison brings a ...

Per TPWD, Texas’ oyster season lasts from Nov. 1 to April 30 and, curiously, is closed on Sundays. Boats fishing for oysters with a dredge, which must be 14 inches wide or less, or tongs require ...