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 ...
New federal legislation seeks to expand U.S. offshore fish farming but not all environmental advocates agree the bill is good for the health of our oceans. The Marine Aquaculture Research for America ...
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 ...
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 ...
The 'Oyster capital of the east coast' is known for its diversity of oysters, as well as its other locally-sourced seafood and its seafood restaurants.
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 ...