The Apalachicola Bay yields SO many oysters, they are shipped all up & down the Eastern Seaboard..if you eat oysters and live on the East Coast, you've probably had some...the NC/SC oysters are plentiful, but not on the scale of the FL Gulf oysters and tend to remain more localized...if they come from those areas and kept properly, they're as good as oysters get...
...about the only thing that slows the FL Gulf oyster production down is the occasional Red Tide that invades that area...
http://www.apalachicolabay.org/index...49/eventId/475
That I know of, I've never had LA or TX oysters, but from Ferm's description, they don't sound REELAPEELIN!!...lol!!