Galveston Bay Oysters Will Take Three Years to Recover From Harvey
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Houston Press] BY GWENDOLYN KNAPP- September 29, 2017
In the days after Harvey the world (well, the Internet anyway) was getting to know Houston native Raz Halili. The 30-year-old oysterman was rescuing people from the flooded San Leon area in a boat with his cousin when a selfie he snapped went viral on social media. It was shared more than 7,000 times, and by at least one local television news outlet, with the hashtag he’d acquired alongside it, #rescuebae. But Halili, who helps run his family’s Galveston Bay-based oyster company, Prestige Oysters, was also dealing with a larger personal crisis. The...
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