Oysters Quotes

Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana`s shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana`s economy in total.

Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay are in serious, serious trouble. They`ve had such a drastic decline in the past century. And things are not getting better under current management strategies.

It is a big concern. If the price keeps going up, under the worst circumstances, we may have to discontinue serving oysters for a while but we are an oyster bar so it`s kind of hard to stop selling oysters.

(The determination came in response to a virtual fishery shutdown in the affected states due to major flooding, damage to fishing boats and fishing ports, waterways clogged with debris and closed processing facilities.) We are taking action now because of the significant economic effects of Hurricane Katrina on fishing communities in the Gulf of Mexico, ... Major commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico include fin fish, shrimp and oysters, with an estimated value of almost $700 million per year.

You needn`t tell me that a man who doesn`t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He`s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.