Scores of Apalachicola Bay workers urged the FWC to include them in plans for reopening the bay's severely diminished oyster beds.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will discuss the potential limited reopening of the collapsed Apalachicola Bay oyster fishery ...

While oyster harvesting there was halted in 2020, officials say reviving the industry would help the area's economy. It could resume early next year.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission met Wednesday in Tallahassee to discuss the future of oyster harvesting in Apalachicola. The meeting comes as the conclusion of a five-year ...

State wildlife officials are devising plans to allow some commercial oyster harvesting next year in Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola Bay, despite no major improvements in the ...

A former NFL quarterback who played for the Jets has died at 74. Bill Demory passed away on Feb. 14 following battles with prostate cancer and Parkinson’s, according to an obituary published in ...

The bay, which once supplied more than 90 percent of Florida’s oysters, has been on life support for nearly a decade.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will consider a partial reopening of the Apalachicola Bay oyster fishery. The fishery collapsed in 2013 and was closed in 2020 to allow the ...

State wildlife officials are devising plans to allow some commercial oyster harvesting next year in Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola Bay, despite no major improvements in the bay after a halt ...

Scores of Apalachicola Bay seafood workers filled a Tallahassee meeting room Wednesday to urge the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission to include them in plans to open the bay’s oyster beds.