Pearl oyster farming represents a sophisticated intersection of aquaculture, marine biology and sustainable economic development. The production process involves the careful selection of oysters, the ...

DUXBURY -- An oyster farm south of Boston is shipping their harvest around the country. Island Creek Oysters of Duxbury was the first oyster farm on the South Shore. "We spawn oysters, so people get ...

ROCKPORT — AJ Minns and his wife, Debbie, took turns scooping the first of about 270,000 oyster seed into mesh bags. Dozens of community members, friends and colleagues, invited by Minns, joined the ...

The first oyster-farming facility of its kind in the world is coming to Bath. The City Council last week approved the sale of a city-owned building on Town Landing Road along the Kennebec River to ...

About a mile off Bolivar Peninsula, near Goat Island, black mesh bags full of oysters from a local oyster farm bob on the waves. From far away, they look like a flock of birds. Commenters on Facebook ...

In 1986, Pemaquid Oyster Co. in Bristol was one of only a few oyster farms in Maine. “One of my friends said it was like belonging to a country club but, instead of going golfing on a Saturday, we’d ...

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 ...

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 ...

For an industry that brings so many environmental benefits and economic promise, North Carolina's oyster farmers have been facing some major headwinds. Some come with the territory, namely working on ...

A new study has shed light on how oysters help remove planet-heating carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The results make a strong case for oyster farming as a viable way to cool down the Earth and ...