Oyster season hasn't been going well at all for the Texas Gulf Coast people who make their living on the reefs.
Although the future looked bright at the start of the Texas oyster season back in November, it is now clear that those who depend on the public reefs for their livelihood have been having a disappointing season.
The other 31 sections that comprise the state public reefs have been closed for weeks already, with TPWD officials opting to shut down oystering in some waters as early as December and another round of closures being triggered by the state’s traffic light program that kicks off automatic closures based on pre-determined sampling guidelines from the reefs.
Admittedly, it’s been one thing after another for the people who make their living from the oyster reefs. The state makes up about $50 million of the annual profit of the $250 million Gulf Coast oyster industry, but the reefs have been beset with problems for more than a decade now. Hurricane Ike wiped out some of the most abundant reefs in Galveston Bay when debris from the storm smothered large swathes of the ancient beds in silt back in 2008.
But the steady stream of catastrophe over the past decade has guaranteed that there simply are not enough oysters or the ones that are there are not the required size needed to support the Texas industry for an entire season. He noted that even though this season runs through the end of April, it is effectively over for most oyster boats, including those that work for or are owned by U.S. Sea Products. Although his company usually has about 30 boats working the public reefs during the Texas oystering season, they haven’t even sent a boat out in a month, he said. “I was out there in the few sections that are open, and, I checked,” Jurisich said.
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