TALLAHASSEE ― More than a decade after the oyster industry collapsed in Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola Bay, state wildlife officials Thursday gave preliminary approval Thursday to reopen some oyster ...

FWC votes yes to preliminary guidelines to partially reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting. The bay has been closed ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission agreed to consider rules in November reopening the iconic fishery in ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is moving forward with partially reopening the Apalachicola Bay for ...

The area once supplied more than 90 percent of Florida’s oysters and 10 percent of the oysters sold nationally.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has agreed to reopen Apalachicola Bay wild oyster harvesting on ...

During its Thursday meeting, the FWC proposed a new management framework for commercial and recreational oyster harvest in ...

Florida wildlife officials have given preliminary approval to a plan to reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting, five ...

Apalachicola residents have been complaining for months about smelly, discolored water. But the city claims that problem is ...

The Apalachicola River descends 106 miles across the Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico as the creator and caretaker of Florida’s largest forested floodplain, sandbar beaches, breezy bluffs, coa… ...

In 2013, Apalachicola still produced 80 percent of Florida's oysters, according to the FWC, but the state's production was down 49 percent from t he previous five-year average.