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Bonnet Carré Spillway: Impacts on Mississippi's commercial oyster fishery
I received several inquiries for estimates of what the commercial fishery impacts of the prolonged and twice opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway...
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Bonnet Carré Spillway: Impacts on Mississippi's commercial shrimp fishery
I would like to provide estimates of the potential direct losses on the Mississippi commercial shrimp fishery associated with the prolonged and...
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Fish Aging 101
When you hear the word aging, what comes to mind? In day-to-day conversation, we use aging to describe the process of growing old. However, aging...
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Fairhope Docks preserves working waterfront
The Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast has a long tradition of working waterfronts, small towns that produce some of the best seafood in the world....
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Harvest tag 0001: An update on Mississippi oyster farming
On April 9 this year, the first farm-raised oysters were harvested for commercial sale in Mississippi from the Deer Island Oyster Park just south...
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Try these tips to help released fish survive
The red snapper recreational fishing season is finally here, and like many of you, I spent opening weekend on the water wetting a line. You...
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Economic impacts of coastal hazards on the Mississippi oyster fishery
It has been more than 13 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the coastal areas in the northern Gulf states in August 2005. The closures of...
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Theres an app for that?
One of the jobs of Extension is to solve problems for the community that they serve. In my work with oyster aquaculture, sometimes those are big...
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Oyster gardening season is ending soon
We have almost reached the end of the Mississippi Oyster Gardening season! Next week we will pick up the oysters, which have been in the water for...
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