Today is the first
day of the winter Oyster harvesting season, and the season is opening with a
lower bag limit.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission lowered the commercial bag limit for oysters to three
bags per harvester during the winter season which runs from September 1st
through May 31st.
Recreational harvesters will also see
a big cut in their daily allowance.
The daily recreational person, vessel
and possession limit is 5 gallons of oysters in the shell - recreational harvesters used to be allowed to
two bags of oysters per day.
Commercial and recreational oyster
harvesting will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
Portions of the bay known as areas 1612
and 1622 are closed south of Sheepshead Bayou.
The changes are effective in all of
Apalachicola Bay, including all waters of Indian Lagoon in Gulf County.
The FWC began implementing tighter
oyster harvesting rules in the fall of 2014 in an effort to help the
Apalachicola Bay oyster population recover from the effects of low river flow.
http://live.oysterradio.com/
No comments:
Post a Comment