Editor
Jules Melancon, a third-generation Louisiana oysterman who, rather than giving up after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ravaged the Gulf Coast, found an innovative, sustainable and much tastier way to bring his briny delicacies to New Orleans restaurants, died on Aug. 31 at his home in Cut Off, La. He was 65.
His father, Loyman Melancon, said the cause was metastatic cancer.
Mr. Melancon spent most of his life farming oysters the…
