Sounds like the kind of thing someone who hasn’t enjoyed a nice, briny, mop-water-filthy dirty martini while slurping down some fresh oysters on the half shell with lemon and horseradish would say.

At the Tampa Bay Watch building on Tierre Verde, volunteers drill holes in the shells and string them onto ropes. They create what’s called a Vertical Oyster Garden, or VOG. While VOGs hang from ...

South Carolina does not enforce specific oyster harvesting methods, but it encourages harvesters to cull in place, meaning the harvester breaks off and leaves dead shell and smaller oysters on the ...

Oyster shells are bulky and plain, but the treasures they hold go beyond their tasty meat and beautiful pearls. One company in Hong Kong is turning them into materials for constructing buildings.

Moore points to two reasons the reefs have been harmed. One is past erosion and the other is man-made. That's why the ...

Thousands of baby oysters are growing in the Baltimore Harbor in Maryland’s largest public oyster garden at Lighthouse Point ...

Also a growing recycling business turns glass into sand to use in coastal rebuilding projects & a state coastal advocacy group works with restaurants to reuse oyster shells to build reefs.

Growing up on Taiwan’s west coast where mollusc farming is popular, Eddie Wang saw discarded oyster shells transformed from waste to function – a memory that inspired him to create a unique ...

The Oyster Festival is back, with new management and features like live music, a beer garden and an expanded menu.

No longer confined to beachy souvenir shops, works encrusted with oysters and mussels are showing ... Often lustrous and intricately patterned, shells have served as passports, currency ...

Participants can enjoy seafood, including oysters on the half shell and steamed shrimp, as well as desserts, such as York ...