{"id":478703,"date":"2026-10-28T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478703\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:26:10","slug":"texas-oyster-season-2026-tpwd-opens-10-coastal-harvesting-areas-on-nov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478703\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Oyster Season 2026: TPWD opens 10 coastal harvesting areas on Nov. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will open 10 shellfish harvesting areas to commercial and recreational oyster harvest beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>   Texas Oyster Season opens Nov. 2 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-1163146209.jpg\" alt=\"GettyImages-1163146209.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-1fc0918c=\"\">These oysters were shucked at Jeanine Beckham&#8217;s Cedar Key Oyster &amp;amp; Clam Co. (Kevin Spear\/Orlando Sentinel\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The openings follow TPWD collecting samples prior to the shellfish harvesting season. Officials evaluated the abundance of legal-sized oysters, which are at least 3 inches long, among other factors.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">TPWD said TX-33 and TX-34 were not sampled but will open to provide additional fishing opportunities and help distribute the fleet at the start of the 2026-27 oyster season. The agency said those areas typically do not see a commercial oyster harvest.<\/p>\n<p> Full list of open Texas shellfish harvesting areas <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The following areas will be open:<\/p>\n<p> Galveston Bay: TX-1 and TX-5Matagorda Bay: TX-13, TX-19 and TX-20Aransas Bay: TX-29, TX-30 and TX-32Corpus Christi Bay: TX-33Lower Laguna Madre: TX-34 Fleet distribution rules, closed shellfish areas <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">TX-1, TX-13, TX-19 and TX-20 are opening below the current threshold to provide additional harvest opportunities and prevent the fleet from concentrating in one or two areas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">All other shellfish harvesting areas not listed above will remain closed to public harvest beginning at 12:01 a.m. Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">TPWD Coastal Fisheries staff will continue monitoring the areas and may open or close them as the respective thresholds are met.<\/p>\n<p> Balancing oyster conservation <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/oysters.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;Maintaining 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,&#8221; Robin Riechers, director of TPWD\u2019s Coastal Fisheries Division, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">A map of Texas oyster harvesting areas and the latest status information is available on the Texas Department of State Health Services\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dshs.texas.gov\/seafood-aquatic-life-group\/information-on-consumption-advisories-possession-bans-rescinded-orders-seafood-aquatic-life\/shellfish-harvest-map\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shellfish harvest map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/science\/wild-nature\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Nature<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will open 10 shellfish harvesting areas to commercial and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[223,2220,27,29,28,216,393,2795],"class_list":["post-478703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-news","tag-science","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-wild-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478703","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=478703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}