Required oyster seminar offered in Eastpoint this week

If you are an oyster harvester and have not yet taken the seminar required to apply for your oyster harvesting license, you will be able to take the seminar at the Eastpoint firehouse this week.

The 20 minute seminar will be offered today through Friday at 3:30 each day at the Eastpoint firehouse on 6^th street.

The seminar is required by the Federal Food and Drug Administration and replaces the two hour course that first time oyster harvesters had to take in previous years.

And don’t forget to buy your Apalachicola Bay Oyster Harvesting Licenses before the end of the month.^.

You have to have the license to commercially harvest oysters from the

Apalachicola Bay System beginning July 1^st.

The licenses cost of 100 dollars for Florida residents and 500 dollars for non-residents.

The licenses are for sale Monday through Friday at the Shellfish Center in Apalachicola

The Shellfish center is at 260 Dr. Frederick S. Humpheries Street near the Scipio Creek boat basin.

http://live.oysterradio.com/