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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For over a century, oysters have been of significant economic and ecological importance in the Chesapeake Bay region, the largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Maine is producing more oysters than ever due to a growing number of shellfish farms that have launched off its coast in recent years. The state’s 2021 oyster harvest was the ...

University of Maine researchers' data is now a foundation for a study and is helping create a satellite-based tool/app to ...

GRAND ISLE – Not all jewels have the deep green features of emeralds or sparkle of diamonds. Some tumble from algae-coated cages in a rush of rock and shell, briny water splashing alongside them onto ...

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 ...