GOVERNORS ISLAND, New York (WABC) -- It took less than 100 years for New Yorkers to wipe out the oyster population in the New York Harbor. Now, the Billion Oyster Project is trying to rebuild the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Oyster shells recycled through the SCORE program go directly back into sustaining local living ...

Several new and expanded projects aim to restore oysters in the Lynnhaven River to some of the population’s former glory. Conservation nonprofit Lynnhaven River NOW last week began building its first ...

On a recent spring evening at Crave Fishbar in New York City, the oysters resting on beds of ice hailed from Long Island, Virginia, Washington, Cape Cod, and British Columbia. But once they’d been ...

YOU. NOW TO OUR INITIATE,IV FORECASTING OUR FUTURE, WHERE WE TAKE A DEEPER DIVE INTO ISSUES THAT EFFECT OUR CHANGING COASTLINE, CLIMATE, AND COMMUNITY. TRAVERS: IT’S NO SUPRISE. WE EAT A LOT OF ...

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 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recently completed two oyster rehabilitation projects, one within the public oyster seed grounds of Mississippi Sound and one within the public ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A pair of oyster habitats part of a series of stations managed by Staten Island students through the Billion Oyster Project were defaced in St. George, killing the marine life ...

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 ...