From CRD Outreach & Education

Commissioner Walter Rabon has announced that Georgia's territorial waters will reopen to commercial and recreational oyster harvest effective 6:00 a.m., Thursday, October 8, 2026.

Since 2008, the Commissioner of Natural Resources has closed the salt waters of this State to the commercial and recreational harvest of oysters for human consumption from June through September of every year to address management requirements. Due to higher than average water temperatures coastwide for the month of September, an extension of the existing closure was implemented to allow for water temperatures to decrease below the control plan threshold of 81-degrees. Based on current and forecasted observations, water temperatures should continue to decline several degrees and fall below the 81-degree Fahrenheit threshold along the coast.

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