Planning is underway to select locations for up to six restored oyster reefs in bays of the Mission-Aransas Estuary. Project partners are currently considering public feedback, including insights ...

Amid a significant global decline in wild oysters, a limited oyster harvest season is underway in Texas. State officials have been monitoring reefs across the state and closing access to reefs without ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s almost been a year since the Nature Conservancy started the Save Our Shells Oyster Recycling Program. It is part of a mission to recycle oyster shells from restaurants ...

Oysters do a lot for the Texas Coast – filter water, provide storm protection, sequester carbon and make for good eating, but the reefs are continuously disappearing. “We’ve got to continue to put ...

As oyster roast season comes to a close, a local partnership is making sure nothing goes to waste ...

The collapse of the Francis Scott Bridge in 2024 impacted wildlife in the Patapsco River and the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has a public Baltimore oyster growing program, which ...

Oyster reefs in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon are showing signs of recovery after decades of damage from overharvesting, pollution, and boat activity, which wiped out more than half of the habitat.

Volunteers look at oysters shells and take note of how many baby oysters they can see. There are many ways to spend a Wednesday morning. But for the volunteers who showed up to the Jackson Estuarine ...

Pioneering scheme hopes species that thrived for thousands of years in Irish waters can do so again ...

CORPUS CHRISTI At its Nov. 7 meeting in Corpus Christi, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission (TPW) adopted Cultivated Oyster Mariculture (COM) rule changes to clarify and refine current program ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has secured $8.2 million to restore oyster reefs. The project will involve constructing up to six new oyster reefs in the bays of the Mission-Aransas Estuary.