Oysters sustain themselves by sucking microscopic plankton out of the waters they inhabit, a reality that also turns them into natural water filters.

The Chesapeake Beach Oyster Cultivation Society was awarded the 2024 Community Service Award from the John Hanson Chapter of ...

Oysters have been growing there for more than two decades. But last year, the Key Bridge collapse blocked organizers from ...

Backhouse, a Quaker missionary and naturalist, visited the Moreton Bay settlement in 1836 and described a beach on Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah: The water teems with fish, great and small and as for ...

These oysters clump together in clusters and form oyster reefs, which act as “natural water filtration facilities.” Given their role in conserving the bay’s ecosystem, recently the Chesapeake Bay ...

Community members participating in this project raised all these baby oysters and released them into the reef once they grew into adults.

The reefs also protect habitats that capture and store carbon, making them silent heroes in building coastal resilience. The impact spreads far beyond individual gardens. The 110,000 oysters grown in ...

Feasts and banquets often featured oysters as a symbol of wealth and sophistication. Chesapeake Bay became a major hub for oyster harvesting, supplying oysters to cities like New York and Boston.

Flinders University Citizen Science Reef on Kangaroo Island and the Coffin Bay citizen science oyster reef project, which supports production of the native oyster and razorfish for future generations.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – Chesapeake Police responded to a vehicle crash involving a train near Seaboard Avenue early Wednesday morning. According to officials, around 4:25 a.m., officers were ...

2.1.3 Predator-oyster spat-on-reef interactions off Helgoland To check whether predators interact with oyster spat-on-reef, 500 small oysters (1–2 cm SL; purchased at Morecambe Bay Oysters, ...