Matt Van Meter News Today

Massive, unexplained bivalve die-off sends many Louisiana oystermen back to square one Halle Parker Mitch Jurisich, a third-generation oysterman, dropped a long pair of oyster tongs into the Gulf of Mexico and lightly raked the water bottom. When he brought up his catch — several oysters that he laid along the side of his boat — all but one were dead. The more resilient hooked mussels, typically found clustered along the areas oyster reefs, had suffered the same fate. The stench of rottin...