Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. From the coast of Maine to Florida, piles of oysters have stacked up ...

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 ...

Across New York City, more than 70 restaurants are tossing their oyster shells not into the trash or composting pile, but into the city's eroded harbor. It's all part of Billion Oyster Project's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Summertime is seafood time, and oysters shout yum to so many people. Everyone is looking for “buck a shuck” and enjoying oysters on the half shell. So, what is an oyster? Around here, the American ...

Contests, live music and succulent Gulf oysters prepared in a host of tantalizing ways are the draws this weekend as the New Orleans Oyster Festival returns to Woldenberg Riverfront Park in the French ...

A new collaboration between food distribution company Sysco and New Jersey officials aims to grow new oyster reefs around the Jersey Shore. Sysco will work with many of the 800 restaurants in the ...