By SOPHIE BATES Updated 4:37 PM CDT, May 5, 2025 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A group of more than 20 fishermen, led by Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United Inc., a nonprofit trade organization, are suing the state over its attempts to lease…
The Department of Marine Resources say oyster season will re-open on January 15 in approved areas for a maximum 11-day period. Those areas are: Area I "B" This area includes St Joe reefs Area II "A” This area includes the…
Oyster season in Mississippi waters officially kicked off this morning. St. Joe Reefs, Waveland reefs, and Henderson Point reefs are all areas that are approved. Oyster season in these specified waters…
The oyster industry in the Gulf of Mexico has shown signs of rapid decline over the years, but USM is working diligently to restore our oyster population. Meet…
A relatively new off-bottom aquaculture industry for harvesting oysters is developing across the Gulf of Mexico and USM is looking to support it with a new program. SOAR, which stands for…
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is in phase 1 of its remote oyster setting facility project. The purpose of the project is to support the restoration and…
The Mississippi state Supreme Court on Thursday agreed with a lower court that Prestige Oysters was wrongly denied an application to use land zoned C-4 as a marina. Tazz Halili Trust, doing business as Prestige Oysters, in 2015 bought property…
BILOXI, Miss. – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced Wednesday that Area 5 Approved growing waters are closed to the harvest of oysters beginning at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, due to the threat of…
It’s a historic time for a historic business here on the Coast. A century has come and gone and one D’Iberville business is still serving the oyster industry on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and beyond. Balius Welding and Iron Works…
News 25's Toni Miles interviews Joe Jewell about the start of the Oyster Season.
Officials with MDMR are hosting a public hearing tonight on an oyster aquaculture project near Deer Island. News 25’s Tanner Stewart joins us with what this means for fisherman.
News 25's Laurene Callander tells us more about the Oyster Program happening here in the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Additional areas are now officially open for oyster fishermen. The northern portion of Pass Christian and Henderson Point reefs and Hornets reef inside the tonging line is open, as well as Waveland and St. Stanislaus reefs inside the tonging line.
Oyster Areas Closed To Harvesting: Handkerchief Reef and Henderson Point Reef Pass Christian Reef Pass Marianne Reef Telegraph Reefs Pelican, Buoy and First Key Reefs
News 25's Laurene Callander tells us about the oyster reefs reopening at Biloxi Bay this morning.
Oyster season is off to a rocky start after Monday’s opening. Nearly 100 boats harvested 12 hundred sacs of oysters on the first day of the season. The oyster fishermen who spoke with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources said…
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources reached out to the public for input on proposed changes regarding Mississippi’s oyster aquaculture. Enhancing Mississippi’s oyster resources through aquaculture was a top recommendation of Governor Phil Bryant’s Oyster Restoration Council. Tonight DMR held…
More oyster reefs are opening this morning at sunrise according to The Mississippi Department Of Marine Resources. The two areas include square Handkerchief Reef, southern portions of Henderson Point Reef, and southern portions of the Pass Christian Reef. All current…
Gulf coast fishermen could not hit the water fast enough this morning after the DMR announced the opening of two oyster reefs. The men and women itching to get back to work after dealing with almost three months of a…
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announces emergency work for oyster fishermen.
The power of decision making regarding our coastal oyster season has shifted from the Commission of Marine Resources to the executive director of the DMR.