Oysters are a key part of the CT diet, but the sea creatures face threats to their population. A local nonprofit is making an ...

Virginia’s shores are a paradise for oyster lovers, with briny beauties pulled straight out of the bay and onto your plate.

Earlier this year, it dropped food-shaped linen cocktail napkins featuring sardines, tomatoes, and pasta, among others, and ...

The seaside celebration is back for another year with a bumper line-up of live music, traditional entertainment and fresh ...

Oyster shells from local restaurants in the Town of North Hempstead will soon help fuel a growing marine restoration movement on Long Island as officials expand oyster gardening and shell recycling ...

The Baltimore Oyster Partnership launched its 13th season of oyster restoration with a splash — literally — at Harbor East Marina on Tuesday, where volunteers, local leaders and even Poe, the ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s almost been a year since the Nature Conservancy started the Save Our Shells Oyster Recycling Program. It is part of a mission to recycle oyster shells from restaurants ...

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 ...

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, ...

David Schechter is a national environmental correspondent and the host of "On the Dot with David Schechter," a guided journey to explore how we're changing the earth and earth is changing us.

Fishermen have taken oysters out of the Long Island Sound off Connecticut for generations. But Todd Koehnke and Tim Macklin have made it their mission to dump millions of old shells back in. Oyster ...

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 ...