Louisiana
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Robert
Barham announced a 14-day oyster season in the public oyster
seed grounds of St. Bernard Parish in the Department of Health
and Hospitals (DHH) harvest areas one, two, and three. These
areas will open at one-half hour before sunrise on Sunday,
April 13, 2008 and will close at one-half hour after sunset
on Saturday, April 26, 2008.
Harvestable
quantities of oyster resources continue to exist in these
public oyster seed grounds and the possible opening of the
Bonnet Carre Spillway has placed that resource in imminent
peril. With the resource in imminent peril from the possible
spillway opening, it has been determined that allowing limited
harvest of the resource is in the best interest of the Louisiana
oyster industry. The limited harvest would provide economic
opportunity to the oyster industry as it continues to rehabilitate
from the hurricane impacts of 2005.
