For the first time in Florida history, if given the go-ahead today by top elected officials, the owners of Spring Creek Restaurant will be allowed to grow oysters in floating cages above their state submerged land aquaculture leases in Alligator Harbor.

The Cabinet meets at 9 a.m. as the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to consider a request by the Lovel family's Spring Creek Oyster Co., to allow use of the full water column above their two 1.5-acre clam leases in Franklin County.

Under current state regulations, the growing of shellfish is allowed only up to six inches above the sea floor – a practice that is good for clams, but is not as advantageous for oysters.

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