Canoe Lagoon oysters ready to be shipped to processing plant in Wrangell on April 27, 2025. A charter cabin cruiser's engine quiets down on the approach to Canoe Lagoon Oyster Farm about an hour and a ...

Louisiana’s Grand Isle launches “Jewel” oyster brand to promote off-bottom farming $140K LED grant supports marketing and infrastructure development Technique revives oyster farming post-Hurricane Ida ...

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 ...

Between cold temperatures, strong winds and sea ice, it’s been a rough winter for oyster farmers. But some growers were ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — News 3 has followed along as people in Hampton Roads have worked to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waterways. This week there's a new emphasis on the cleanup efforts ...

Florida’s oyster population has declined during the past 15 years because of overharvest, hurricanes, changing environmental conditions and more. In particular, Apalachicola Bay has seen a pronounced ...

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

Seeking affordable, sturdy rafts for oyster farming, researchers propose polyethylene rafts. Their findings show a polyethylene raft as being about five times more durable than a conventional bamboo ...

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, women are making efforts to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves. Hundreds of women in the West African nation were ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WFXR) — Oysters have been harvested in Virginia for more than 400 years. In recent decades, disease, overharvest, pollution and environmental factors have caused a population ...

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a family tradition ...