Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of oyster reefs from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris has reopened portions of Mobile Bay, including Cedar Point, Portersville Bay, Heron Bay and Dauphin Island Bay, to oyster harvesting after a temporary closure.
Oyster beds in Mobile Bay are slowly coming back to life through restoration projects led by the Alabama Wildlife Federation and Mobile Baykeeper, timed to National Oyster Day.
As the Army Corps of Engineers' annual Mobile Bay dredging project gets underway, Mobile Baykeeper is raising concerns about where the sediment ends up, even as the Corps defends the…
Bobby Morrison, 80, has spent 64 years tonging oysters by hand out of Bayou La Batre, and he's still working the reefs at Cedar Point alongside his son as Alabama's…
Alabama’s oyster harvest told two very different stories this season, and the difference came down to how the shellfish were grown. Wild, on-bottom reef harvesting had a difficult year. A…
Researchers at the University of South Alabama found that the vertical seawalls lining much of Mobile Bay's residential shoreline harm natural habitat and cost more to maintain than marsh.
Fairhope moved ahead with plans to truck more than 5,000 tons of sand to a badly eroded stretch of bayfront beach near Magnolia Beach Park, hoping to finish before the…
The director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab told a local audience that concerns about the health effects of oil and chemical dispersants used during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill…