On a recent Sunday, a group of volunteers set off into Oyster Bay Harbor on a 26-foot vessel loaded with a few dozen oyster-filled cages. The oysters were tiny at the start of the summer — smaller ...

The Baltimore Harbor is about to take oyster restoration to a new level with a goal to grow 5 million oysters over the next five years — more than doubling efforts already underway. “We’ve set goals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of coastal advocates took to Shearwater Reef on Tuesday, releasing 125 million oyster larvae onto oyster-shell reefs in an ...

BALTIMORE’S OYSTER POPULATION. THIS IS ONE OF THE FOUNDATION’S GARDENING LOCATIONS ALONG THE HARBOR MARINAS, WHERE BABY OYSTERS ARE GROWN IN CAGES RIGHT OFF THE DOCK. HUNDREDS OF CAGES FILLED WITH ...

Oyster reefs in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon are beginning to recover after decades of decline, researchers say. Man-made oyster rings are helping new oysters grow, improving water quality and ...

2025 was a historic year for oyster reproduction in Maryland waters. The Maryland oyster population is thriving, disease rates remain low and mortality levels are the third lowest since 1985, the ...

US processor Greenhead Lobster has become Maine's largest independently owned and operated lobster dealer. Now it wants to expand into growing oysters, too. The Stonington, Maine-based company started ...

When oyster farmer Luke Saindon went looking for a place to grow shellfish in Maine, he knew that picking the wrong patch of water could sink the farm before it began. So Saindon did something oyster ...

Elizabeth Robinson enters a cool, damp room with fluorescent lights and dozens of large plastic bags holding liquid ranging from pastel yellow to dark rust. It's not the typical image associated with ...

EFFORTS THAT ARE ALREADY UNDERWAY. A CEREMONIAL CAGE DROP LAUNCHED THE START OF THE OYSTER GARDENING SEASON IN THE BALTIMORE HARBOR, BUT THIS YEAR IS DIFFERENT. WE’RE ABOUT TO SEE MORE OYSTERS GROWN ...