LDWF meeting to talk about Big Lake Oysters

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Originally Posted by Duck Butter

ship channel dredging?

no he is talking about oyster dredging with rakes plowing up the bottom and striping areas completely bare of oysters in their wake.

you should see how they work, they circle endlessly until they cant find a single oyster left before they move to another spot.

oyster dredging IS as bad and harmful as the gill nets were and it should be outlawed forcing oyster fishermen to go back to less destructive methods like tonging or harvesting by hand