Orange County Coastkeeper earlier in the week received a bounty of oyster shells, 724 pounds worth, from the recently resurrected DTLA Oyster Festival, brought back after a five-year hiatus. The hard ...

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J.–Every year, hungry restaurant patrons slurp down fat, juicy oysters, their greyish-white shells cast aside with little thought. But here on this picturesque barrier island, ...

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 ...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — The Marine Discovery Center’s oyster recycling program, Shuck & Share, has kept more than one million pounds of oyster shells out of the landfill. The program recycles shells ...

Researchers released 125 million larvae onto reefs in Shearwater Reef to restore oysters. The direct setting method places larvae on recycled shells, reducing restoration costs. Oyster reefs boost ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee will receive $16,000 in funding to further an effort to support Olympia oyster populations in Discovery Bay. The funds are intended to ...

A team of coastal advocates took to Biloxi Bay on Tuesday, releasing 125 million oyster larvae onto oyster-shell reefs in an effort to restore populations in the Gulf Coast. The privately-funded study ...

Oyster shells along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. An oyster restoration project is underway in Matagorda Bay. Jerod Foster for The Nature Conservancy With oyster populations in Texas at historic ...

WELLFLEET — Two 5-foot-tall piles of spent oyster shells sit in a corner of Wellfleet’s garbage and recycling center, baking in the hot summer sun. The approximately 25,000 pounds of bivalves have ...

RED HOOK — Projects to revive the Hudson and East rivers’ “functionally extinct” native oyster populations are making slow progress, reports Gothamist, with as many as half of the oysters returned to ...

Editor's note: Oysters are becoming a critical component of South Carolina's defense against climate change. This is the third part of an occasional series from The Post and Courier that will track ...