Coast Line and Oyster Bottoms of Louisiana

Subject

Location of oyster beds along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, from east of Sabine Lake to east of Lake Borgne in Chandeleur Sound. Increasing productivity of oyster growing bottoms

Date

1914

Mapmaker

Payne, Frank T., chief surveyor

Publisher

Conservation Commission of Louisiana

Place of Publication

[Baton Rouge, La.]

Accession Number

T0101.1996.0019

Condition

Fair.

Notes

Delineates 1) prolific oyster growing bottoms; 2) areas producing oysters but requiring fresh water to bring them to a "high state of productiveness;" 3) "Areas at present unproductive but could be made so by by removal of Païnt Au-Fer Shell reef, permitting the outflow of the Fresh water of the Atchafalyaya River."

"Compiled under the direction of the Conservation Commission of Louisiana."

Size

8 x 22 1/4

Storage

c06d04