Harvesting oysters in Louisiana

The reef is in Christmas Camp Lake, east of Lake Borgne in the waters off Louisiana. Van Robin holds the lease on the reef. His crew will start working at 5 a.m. By mid-day, they will have harvested 250 sacks of oysters. Each sack has 85 to 100 oysters.

Ram Miller, Robin's nephew, sells the oysters directly to restaurants in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and even Florida. His company, St. Bernard Oyster Co., will deliver oysters to Trenasse, Deanie's and Felix's by 3 or 4 o'clock on the same day they were pulled from the water.