Osteones

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not expected to hit the Texas coast directly. But a direct result of the spill could be a death blow to the oyster industry here. With oystering all but dead in Louisiana waters, many of those oystermen will scrape the reefs along the Texas coast. Those reefs are still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Ike in 2007. Fragile, weak, and slowly recovering, the reefs will not be able to sustain themselves through an onslaught of overfishing.
I went along with a crew from La Porte for a day of dredging up oysters in Galveston Bay. It's hard work, you have to love it to do it. The pay is a pittance for the crew, they make in a whole day what the company owner makes in two gallons of oysters sold.