'Tis the season. Families and friends gather this time of year around Christmas trees and often get together around a blazing fire for oyster roasts. After Christmas, assuming that you have used a ...

Stacks of oyster shells are piled into the boats of local captains and ferried off to the Lemon Tree mound site on April 22, 2022. And as oyster larvae land on the reef, it will become part of the ...

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 ...

The annual contest continues to be a favorite seasonal tradition, celebrating local talent while highlighting the cultural ...

Recycling oyster shells from restaurants not only provides reef habitat for new oysters and other fish, but it also benefits the marine economy and enables the mollusks to improve the environment by ...

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 ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the world's oyster reefs are gone. Many fisheries are collapsing, and those in ...

Every month, we receive questions and concerns from people in and around Charleston related to flooding, government regulations and sea-level rise. We read every single one. Now we will answer some of ...

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 ...