Convenience Big Store: 🦪 Texas opens up oyster harvesting area

March 11, 2026

🦪 Texas opens up oyster harvesting area

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A willet shorebird perches on an island of oyster shells in the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, not terribly far from the oyster harvesting area of Matagorda Bay that Texas Parks and Wildlife opened to harvesters last week.

For once, Texas opens an oyster harvesting area mid-season

State's oyster harvesters have a decision to make this weekend.

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