LDWF Press Release

February 5, 2024

Secretary Sheahan Secures Fishery Dollars for Louisiana

After Secretary Sheahan met with Louisiana’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association announced that Congress will appropriate $42 million in the 2023 Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act for multiple fisheries in Louisiana, Alaska, and on the west coast. 
February 8, 2024

LDWF Makes Delinquent Oyster Lease List Available Online

As per Louisiana Revised Statute 56:429, any lessee who pays their rent on or after the first day of February owes the rent due plus an additional 10 percent penalty. If the lessee fails to pay the rent punctually before the first of March, LDWF is required by law to terminate and cancel the lease, and the lessee forfeits to the department all the works, improvements, betterments and oysters on the water bottom.