The federal government has agreed to settle a lawsuit by evaluating whether industrial shellfish dredging interferes with the protection of an Oyster Bay national wildlife refuge established in ...

It’s here Painter, Fetzer and about 70 other baymen who still scratch a living by raking hard clams and oysters off the bottom of Oyster ... in actuality a National Wildlife Refuge.

Most Flower operations occur within the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The Army Corps investigated complaints from several baymen and determined that Flower is in full compliance with what ...

When you are looking out at the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge (OBNWR) you are really looking out at a shellfish nursery resting under the sea. FMF, shellfishers are really farming shellfish ...

This spot is also a national wildlife refuge visited every year by tens ... Now, the Jamestown-S’Klallam Tribe wants to reopen its old oyster farm in the bay. The tribe will know by Christmas ...

An area of Matagorda Bay used for oyster harvesting will close on ... located between Matagorda Island and the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, and Josephine’s Reef, a 48-acre area inside ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 25, 2019) Washington State officials have approved an agreement that will prevent oyster growers farming in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor from ... State Department of ...

State wildlife officials said ... “We all want a thriving Apalachicola Bay abundant with healthy wild oysters, including oyster reefs that provide critical refuge feeding grounds and nursery ...

could be shortened if improvements were seen in the oyster population and the condition of the bay. Money for the restoration effort came from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Gulf ...