GALVESTON, Texas - You can eat oysters cooked or raw, and many consider them a delicacy. But they're at the center of a controversy in Galveston County.
Oyster fisherman like Raz Alili say they're in the fight for their lives being told they're not allowed to fish for oysters in Galveston Bay in water they say the state grants them license to do so.
"We're trying to save the oysters," said Alili. "They're preventing us from protecting our investment."
The 'they' to whom he's referring is Sustainable Texas Oyster Resource Management, or STORM.
"We have permission from the landowner to plant rock, to build reefs and grow oysters on the bottom," said Tracy Woody, president of STORM.
That's where things get tricky. At issue are 23,000 acres of land at the bottom of the bay.
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