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Unsold Oysters go to New Jersey Restoration Reefs

  • Coastal News
  • Fishing
  • Nature
10/23/2020 - By Kirk Moore. For months COVID-19 restrictions have shut down restaurants in New Jersey and stalled the promising rebirth of the state’s oyster industry. That left a lot of now-oversized oysters in Delaware and Barnegat bays. A new project led by Rutgers University and New Jersey Sea Grant is buying… SEE MORE
  • New Jersey
  • oysters
  • Reefs
OysterFest

Oyster Management Station and Zone Opening

  • Coastal News
  • Fishing
10/14/2020 - Pursuant to Section 9-12-28, Code of Alabama 1975 as stated by Rule 220-3-.02, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ (ADCNR) Marine Resources Division (MRD) will open limited areas of public oyster bottoms for weekday harvest beginning on Monday, October 12, 2020, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Additionally,… SEE MORE
  • Aquaculture
  • Commercial Fishing
  • oysters

Oyster Farming Has Small but Positive Impact on Chesapeake Bay

  • Fishing
  • Nature
11/13/2019 - By David Malmquist, VIMS. The rapid growth of oyster aquaculture in the Chesapeake Bay has raised questions about its effects on water quality, with proponents touting benefits including reduction of water-column nutrients and increased clarity, and other stakeholders pointing to drawbacks such as enrichment of sediment nutrients and altered current… SEE MORE
  • Aquaculture
  • oysters

Shellfish 101: How to Shuck Oysters

  • Fishing
  • Food
10/8/2019 - By Molly Watson. START WITH FRESH, RAW OYSTERS The main reason for shucking oysters is to eat them raw. You want very fresh, live, fabulous oysters if that's your plan. Luckily, oysters are fairly cooperative on that front as long as you keep them cold and don't suffocate them in… SEE MORE
  • national seafood month
  • oysters
Grand Isle, LA Oyster Hatchery

Record Low Gulf Coast Supply Could Jolt Oyster Prices

  • Coastal News
  • Fishing
10/4/2019 - By Sue Cocking. This spring’s record-shattering flooding from the Mississippi River has wreaked historic havoc on oyster production in the Gulf of Mexico, which could reverberate for years to come with scant supply and hard-to-digest prices. Louisiana, which bore the worst of the damage from too-low salinity and smothering algae… SEE MORE
  • Gulf Coast
  • oysters
The Billion Oyster Project returning oyster shells back into New York Harbor

Cleaning New York Harbor with One Billion Oysters

  • Nature
3/24/2019 - By Jackie Wattles The New York Harbor for years has been polluted and depleted of marine life. But one nonprofit is working to clean the murky water and revive its long-lost ecosystem — one oyster at a time. The Billion Oyster Project has worked since 2014 to rebuild oyster reefs… SEE MORE
  • oyster shell recycling
  • oysters
  • pollution
Oyster shell recycling

Shell Recycling Programs Increasing in Popularity

  • Nature
2/27/2019 - Oyster shells used to end up in landfills. Now they are being turned into castles for baby oysters. You may have heard this centuries-old maxim about when it’s safe to eat raw oysters: Don’t indulge in the bivalves during any month spelled without the letter “R.” (Though, there’s plenty of cause to consider the… SEE MORE
  • conservation
  • oysters
  • recycling
  • shells

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