'Tis the season. Families and friends gather this time of year around Christmas trees and often get together around a blazing fire for oyster roasts. After Christmas, assuming that you have used a ...

Stacks of oyster shells are piled into the boats of local captains and ferried off to the Lemon Tree mound site on April 22, 2022. And as oyster larvae land on the reef, it will become part of the ...

Recycling oyster shells from restaurants not only provides reef habitat for new oysters and other fish, but it also benefits the marine economy and enables the mollusks to improve the environment by ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the world's oyster reefs are gone. Many fisheries are collapsing, and those in ...

One night in March, Jason Pitre left his Bayou Rosa Oyster Farm in Leeville with sacks of oysters bound for a fundraiser in New Orleans. He’d just pulled those oysters from the waters of Bayou ...

Every month, we receive questions and concerns from people in and around Charleston related to flooding, government regulations and sea-level rise. We read every single one. Now we will answer some of ...