Male and female oysters are used to spawn baby oysters at this University of Maryland hatchery. In 2019, unprecedented levels of melting snow and falling rain made the Choptank River, the lab's ...

“In warmer, ‘R’-less months, oysters spawn, which changes their texture,” says Dr. Bryan Quoc Le, food scientist and author of 150 Food Science Questions Answered.

Every summer, after the season closes and the oysters begin to spawn, I work to restore sections of salt marsh within our lease whose banks were stripped of oysters long ago.

Island Creek Oysters of Duxbury was the first oyster farm on the South Shore. "We spawn oysters, so people get blown away by that process. We're creating oysters here," boat captain Dave May told ...

There’s nothing like an ice-cold platter of fresh oysters to make a meal special. The delicate bivalves have been having a moment in recent years, so if you’re new to the delicacy, you may ...

Oysters spawn in the summer months and are mostly small, watery and tasteless. During the winter they are storing up glycogen to reproduce, and are bigger, juicer and sweeter.