For months, Louisiana oyster farmer Mitch Jurisich, Jr. watched the Mississippi as an invisible surge of Gulf of Mexico salt water crept up the tail end of the river, twisting along levees through ...

Plans for the East Bay oyster reef restoration project were being laid before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Birch said, but came to an abrupt halt in 2010 as the world watched oil spread across ...

Shellfish farming is a small but fast-growing segment of Maine’s seafood sector. Now these enterprises — and more broadly the ...

A growing movement of oyster populations in the Chesapeake Bay, reviving their natural ability to filter water and support ...

Restoration managers aim to increase Tampa Bay’s oyster coverage to 471 of the bay’s 256,000 acres by 2050, according to the Tampa Bay Estuary Program’s habitat master plan.

There he learns about the meticulous process of oyster farming, from the gentle waters of Harris Creek to the rough, tumbling waves of the Chesapeake Bay, which shape these oysters to perfection ...

Maryland's oyster population is booming as the number of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay tripled over the last 20 years.There are several factors contributing to this spike, among them, large-scale ...

Refugio Cendejas shucks an oyster while checking on samples dredged from the water on Friday, June 14, 2024 in Galveston Bay. Cendejas and Tracy Woody, owner of Jeri’s Seafood, checked on oyster ...

Representatives from the nonprofit Billion Oyster Project (BOP) visited the Salt Marsh Nature Center on Sunday, Dec. 8, to engage visitors.