Steve Crockett planted the first off-bottom oysters in the Gulf as a reef restoration projects for the Mobile Bay National Estuary program. Fifteen years later Point Aux Pins Oysters is one of the largest Gulf off-bottom oyster operations supplying restaurants and grocery chains across the South.
As October drew to a close and stories of ghosts and goblins put away for another year, we also say good-bye to National Seafood Month. Gulf Seafood News gathered the thoughts of two prominent New Orleans Chefs on Gulf seafood as they cooked National Seafood Month to a close at a recent event held at the Whole Foods Metairie store.
Louisiana shrimp has been the deep freeze long before reaching the shrimp boat freezers. Because of an unusually cold winter, the states brown shrimp season began late, leaving shrimpers with less time on the water this year.
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