For many just a tasty delicacy, the oyster may actually be the hero the world needs to fight environmental degradation -- and volunteers like Kimberly Price are battling to repopulate the surprisingly ...

New York Harbor is getting a pearl of underwater development off the shores of Brooklyn — one that will rival Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in terms of ecological importance. The Billion Oyster ...

A judge recently rejected Oyster Bay's attempt to cut short its 30-year underwater lease with shellfishing company Frank M. Flower & Sons, before the vendor fired back last week with a lawsuit ...

Six Long Island growers contributed oysters locally for the project before the submersion of the shellfish in local harbor waters. The underwater plantings started Monday and continued Tuesday.

To help restore habitats while reducing pollution in the Merrimack River, tens of thousands of baby oysters will be deposited ...

Thriving in African rivers and lakes, Etheria elliptica oysters produce a special material that helps them stick to wood or other oysters, creating complex underwater reefs. Never studied before ...

The Town of Oyster Bay got it right in October when it imposed a six-month moratorium on harvesting claims and oysters on 1,850 acres of underwater land. The underwater townland has been leased ...

Fiala said the collapse sparked fear that the debris would stir up sediment and smother the oysters. But, fortunately, underwater surveying shows the oysters are alive and thriving. The Chesapeake ...

where watermen and -women could freely catch oysters. The scientists used footage from underwater GoPro cameras to give each reef a habitat "score" (one through four, based on the percentage of ...

As we sail past spears of wood protruding from the lagoon — each one marking the location of an underwater oyster bed — I’m keeping one eye on an entertaining flotilla of brightly decorated ...