Tag: Oyster Festival

A Guide to Ordering, Shucking, and Eating Oysters

11/1/2026 - By fisheries.noaa.gov, fisheries.noaa.gov. October was National Seafood Month, and on the Maine coast it was also a month for oysters. We spent an afternoon at the 4th annual Camden Oyster & Beer Festival at The Wharf at Lyman-Morse on October 11, and in Portland, Maine Oysterfest took place on October… SEE MORE

Restored oyster reefs are monitored to ensure the oysters that grow there are thriving. Photo: Oyster Recovery Partnership.

Celebrating Oysters During Oyster Week

10/21/2026 - By fisheries.noaa.gov, fisheries.noaa.gov. Oysters are great multitaskers! They provide many benefits to the ecosystem they live in. They are filter feeders—they clean the water as they eat. And they grow in reefs, which provide great habitat for many other species. But in many places, their population has plummeted. So we… SEE MORE

A Day-trip to Oyster Bay, Long Island

3/2/2020 - Early in the new year I had the pleasure of returning to my hometown for a day of family-friendly activities along the Oyster Bay shore. Oyster Bay was one of the runners-up in our Best Harbor 2019 competition and has been on a campaign to revitalize the downtown over the… SEE MORE