Texas Fauna Project

Eastern Oyster

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Ronnie Luster fished the Texas coast for decades, and was involved in the formation of the Coastal Conservation Association. Here he tells the story of the state's closure of shellfish harvesting areas in Galveston Bay, Matagorda Bay, San Antonio Bay, and Aransas Bay. Through these closures, Texas Parks and Wildlife was responding to excessive, concentrated oyster dredging in many parts of the Texas coast following Hurricane Ike's 2008 damage to major reefs in Galveston Bay.