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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In a cross-country effort to replenish the oyster population in Chesapeake Bay, three seafood companies partnered to ship 84 truckloads with millions of Pacific oyster shells ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The average fully-grown oyster can filter 50 gallons of water a day. That’s just one of several reasons illustrating the importance of bivalves to New York Harbor. And, if one oyster ...

One night during this Super Bowl week, there will be a lot more places in New Orleans to go for oysters, and a mission aligned to where their shells are going afterward. On Wednesday, Feb. 5, more ...

One night in March, Jason Pitre left his Bayou Rosa Oyster Farm in Leeville with sacks of oysters bound for a fundraiser in New Orleans. He’d just pulled those oysters from the waters of Bayou ...

Billion Oyster Project is working to engage 1 million New Yorkers in an ambitious goal: to re-establish oyster reefs in New York Harbor. The nonprofit aims to introduce 1 billion oysters by 2035, ...

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 ...

Oyster Bay planted 50,000 adult oysters in town waters this week as part of a national nonprofit program that buys shellfish from local growers and donates them to municipalities to help create reefs ...

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 ...

Dozens of high school students and other volunteers spent Friday morning stuffing recycled oyster shells into mesh bags — the first step in a plan to create a "living reef" to fight land loss along ...