Summer celebrates reinvigorated Alabama Gulf seafood

Submitted / Alabama Dept. of Natural Resources

ADCNR acting commissioner Chris Blankenship said the demand for oysters produced through aquaculture operations on the Alabama coast is through the roof.

It seems like eons ago when Alabama and the rest of the states on the Gulf of Mexico were collectively staring at a potential apocalypse that might eternally alter the way of life along the Gulf Coast.

The wellhead at the Macondo Prospect was uncontrollably spewing barrel after barrel of crude oil into the Gulf after the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig was destroyed, and our economy and culture were hanging by the thinnest of threads in the summer of 2010.