Dozens of high school students and other volunteers spent Friday morning stuffing recycled oyster shells into mesh bags — the first step in a plan to create a "living reef" to fight land loss along ...
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — The Marine Discovery Center’s oyster recycling program, Shuck & Share, has kept more than one million pounds of oyster shells out of the landfill. The program recycles shells ...
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (WKRG) — Pensacola’s love for oysters is no secret. But one organization is stepping up to get the oyster shells from your plate back into the water. The Pensacola and Perdido ...
RED HOOK — Projects to revive the Hudson and East rivers’ “functionally extinct” native oyster populations are making slow progress, reports Gothamist, with as many as half of the oysters returned to ...
WELLFLEET — Two 5-foot-tall piles of spent oyster shells sit in a corner of Wellfleet’s garbage and recycling center, baking in the hot summer sun. The approximately 25,000 pounds of bivalves have ...
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 ...
ST. JAMES, N.C. (WECT) - A record-breaking 180 volunteers rolled up their sleeves at Waterway Park on Monday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Living Shoreline Project, a community-led effort ...
Scientists seeking to restore New York Harbor’s oyster population are encountering a problem – about half of the bivalves they place in the water die. New York City's waters once teemed with oysters, ...