'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 ...

EASTPOINT — Oyster shells can help rebuild a community in more ways than one. That's the hope with a pilot program in which a handful of restaurants in Franklin County are pitching in their oyster ...

For the past six years, the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe has battled to stop its historic earthen Indian mounds from slipping into the sea, looking to the power of oyster shells to protect them. Now, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Driving around Mount Pleasant or walking throughout popular areas of town, keen observers might spot four-foot tall oyster shells painted with designs reminiscent of the Lowcountry. Take a walk at ...