It’s nearly the opening day for oyster season in Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is opening several bays to commercial and recreational oyster harvest, beginning at12:01 a.m. Monday, Nov. 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After evaluating pre-season oyster samples<\/a>, four of the areas opened met the threshold and four additional TX areas had relatively high abundance of market oysters on select reefs but did not meet the opening threshold overall due to the presence of reefs with lower abundance. Harvest areas TX-1 and TX-5 in Galveston Bay; TX-13, TX-19 and TX-20 in Matagorda Bay; TX-29, TX-30 and TX-32 in Aransas Bay will be open for harvest on Nov. 2. TX-33 in Corpus Christi Bay and TX-34 in the Lower Laguna Madre were not sampled but will also open Nov. 2. \u00a0<\/p>\n These areas typically do not have any commercial oyster harvest. Opening these TX areas will provide more fishing opportunities and better distribute the fleet when the 2026-2027 season begins.\u00a0<\/p>\n To establish which harvest areas will be open at the beginning of the oyster season in Texas, TPWD collects samples prior to the shellfish harvesting season. The factors evaluated include reaching certain thresholds based on the abundance of legal-sized oysters (3 inches or greater).\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMaintaining the balance of conserving oyster resources with fishing opportunities for the commercial industry is important for the industry and for Texas\u2019 reefs both now and for the future,\u201d said Robin Riechers, TPWD\u2019s Coastal Fisheries Division Director, in a\u00a0press release on Oct. 23<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Oyster areas marked with an asterisk (*) are opening below the current opening threshold to provide additional harvest opportunities and to avoid the fleet concentrating in one or two areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n All other harvest areas not listed above will be closed to public harvest beginning at 12:01 a.m. Nov. 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s nearly the opening day for oyster season in Texas.\u00a0 The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3505,155,157,156,3504],"class_list":["post-477477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-auddevok","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-txshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}