There was once advice to avoid oysters during hot summer months due to risk of illness. With the invention of refrigeration, ...

Few people are looking forward to spring more than Dale Parsons, a Tuckerton oyster farmer who lost about $165,000 in oysters ...

This is a perfect time of year to get to know your local farmer, particularly if you want to buy a share in their success ...

Ice has destroyed thousands of dollars worth of gear and dragged oysters out to sea as it melts. For some farmers, the losses ...

I’ve gone to work on an oyster farm on Block Island, a tiny dot of land midway between Long Island and Rhode Island, every May for the past few years. If you are, like most people, unfamiliar with the ...

This has been a brutal winter for Long Island’s shellfish industry, leaving oyster farmers with severe ice damage, lost equipment and disrupted harvests. Massive floating ice chunks tore through cages ...

HARVESTED IN THE COLD, AND HOW THEY MAKE IT FROM FARM TO TABLE. THERE’S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT GREAT BAY IN FEBRUARY, WHEN THE WATER FEELS LIKE IT BELONGS TO THE SEALS. THE BALD EAGLES, AND THE ...

Brandi Shelley, a registered intensive care unit nurse at Ochsner West Bank hospital, has a passion for the bayou. She can't stay away from the water. Oysters from Brandi Shelley's Shelley Farms, an ...

Brandi Shelley, a registered intensive care unit nurse at Ochsner West Bank hospital, has a passion for the bayou. She can't stay away from the water. Shelley grew up in a commercial farming family in ...

The sound of Nicolette Mariano and her crew at Treasure Coast Shellfish clacking and counting oysters emanates from the historic Sembler dock along the Indian River Drive working waterfront in ...