Across New York City, more than 70 restaurants are tossing their oyster shells not into the trash or composting pile, but into the city's eroded harbor. It's all part of Billion Oyster Project's ...

For years, Maryland has participated in celebrating National Oyster Day on Aug. 5. Although many gastronomists still encourage oyster consumption in months that end in “R,” this rule has become more ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the world's oyster reefs are gone. Many fisheries are collapsing, and those in ...

On a recent spring evening at Crave Fishbar in New York City, the oysters resting on beds of ice hailed from Long Island, Virginia, Washington, Cape Cod, and British Columbia. But once they’d been ...

Recycling oyster shells from restaurants not only provides reef habitat for new oysters and other fish, but it also benefits the marine economy and enables the mollusks to improve the environment by ...

Contests, live music and succulent Gulf oysters prepared in a host of tantalizing ways are the draws this weekend as the New Orleans Oyster Festival returns to Woldenberg Riverfront Park in the French ...

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation had volunteers from the Back Country Hunters and Anglers Armed Forces Initiative out to their Shady Side site to clean and load oyster shells into cages to be used to ...

This story is brought to you through our news-gathering partnership with The Outer Banks Voice. Every Tuesday morning, Colington Harbor residents Sharron and Rick Hildebrant have a routine. First, ...