Over the years, the Chesapeake Bay’s native oyster population largely has disappeared because of over-harvesting and disease. In the past decade, however, a new oyster aquaculture movement has taken ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WFXR) — Oysters have been harvested in Virginia for more than 400 years. However, in recent decades, disease, overharvest, pollution, and environmental factors have caused a ...
The Marine Aquaculture Research for America Act would promote commercial-scale aquaculture research to study the viability ...
It was her love of nature and spunk that turned Sarah Matheson Harris into an oyster farmer. “I grew up in Gloucester, on Mobjack Bay, and my father in particular always had an incredibly love and ...
What’s good for oysters can be good for us all. That’s the heartening message in a new report from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation that offers strategies for using the bay’s resurging oyster population ...
Charleston oysterman Thomas Bierce holds up two oyster shells. The first has been washed, tumbled and grated while the other has been plucked naturally from the water in a cluster. “They respond to ...