Louisiana Oyster Farmer, Part-Time Nurse Keeps Family Business Alive: ‘I Love the Bayou'

By Margaret DeLaney

The Advocate

Brandi Shelley, a registered intensive care unit nurse at Ochsner West Bank hospital, has a passion for the bayou. She can't stay away from the water. 

Shelley owns Shelley Farms, an oyster farm in Bayou Hertesa in Port Sulphur in Plaquemines Parish. She also part-owner of Terry Shelley's Shucking House with her brother and father. The oyster farm and distribution company services Louisiana, Texas and Kentucky.

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