This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Recycling programs usually give new life to materials like paper, metal, plastic and glass. But a program in the eastern United States is recycling ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s oyster population is continuing to rebound, with more oysters surviving diseases that have plagued the shellfish in the past and hindered Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts, ...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Maryland's oyster population is continuing to rebound, with more oysters surviving diseases that have plagued the shellfish in the past and hindered Chesapeake Bay restoration ...

<p><br>The 2008 Winter Dredge Survey seems poised to enter the ranks of depressing reports about the health of the Chesapeake Bay, though there are a few hopeful signs.<P> The preliminary results of ...

Across the Chesapeake Bay, the wild oyster season is over but it closed last month with some welcome news: The annual survey of baby oysters known as “spat” shows Maryland’s population is hanging in ...

>> IF THE TIDE REQUIRES A SHELL FISHERMAN IS UP WITH THE SUN, THE OYSTER FLATS OF GLOW AT DAYBREAK. THE HARVEST IS FRUITFUL. MID-SUMMER IS PEAK SEASON FOR OYSTERS. JON HOOD LOCALS CALL IT JOHNNY CLAM ...

In the 1880s, the oyster commercial harvest in Delaware Bay reached a peak of 2.4 million. Scientists in Delaware and Chesapeake are working to fix the oyster habitat disappearing. Some eateries also ...

Fewer oysters died from shellfish diseases in Maryland waters last year than at any time in more than 25 years, state officials report, despite late-summer storms that wiped out bivalves in some upper ...

We're living in a golden age for oysters. Just two decades ago, an ostreophile would have thought him or herself lucky to choose among a handful of options; today, in the U.S. alone, hundreds of ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Pulling good news out of a troubled Chesapeake Bay doesn't happen every day. But Alex DeMetrick reports it's turning up, at least for now, on the half-shell. They've been doing this ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Chesapeake Bay oyster restoration is on track to meet 2025 goals, officials announced. The Chesapeake Bay program aims to restore oyster reefs in 10 Chesapeake Bay tributaries and ...