How One Indigenous Family Is Adapting Their Oyster Business in the Face of Climate Change
BY KAYLEE POCHE
The Advocate
Members of the Indigenous Louisiana family behind Bayou Rosa Oysters Tuesday said to keep their culture alive, their community will have to adapt to the physically changing landscape of South Louisiana.
At Gambit’s Solutions on the Half Shell event in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network, brothers Jason and Josh Pitre said they helped transition the family business started by their grandfather Antoine “Whitney” Dardar, a lifelong commercial fisherman and oysterman in Lafourche Parish, to deal with the effects of climate change.
Dardar long fished oysters by hand, the traditional way, but coastal erosion meant worse conditions for oysters.