Scientists warn that the future of our oceans and climate goals depends on reconnecting the ecological threads that hold ...

The Chesapeake Bay declined in health in 2024, according to an annual report published by the University of Maryland Center ...

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Last year, with maritime traffic limited in the Patapsco River channel during the typical planting season, oysters grown in and around the Baltimore Harbor that would have gone to Fort Carroll ...

BUT ON THE WATER AND LIKE FARMING ON LAND ... as plump and delicate with a flavor profile of "soft salt." While the bay produces oysters naturally, the use of aquaculture allows watermen the ...

and it’s not uncommon for the equipment used to grow the oysters to be broken by harsh waves or blown away in a storm. Salt water is corrosive, and the boats used to retrieve the oysters from ...

For the fifth year in a row, the oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay is doing well after decades of combating drought, disease, loss of habitat and overharvesting. The Maryland Department of ...

Hundertmark explained that oysters live in brackish water where the tide comes in and goes out every day, changing the level of salinity at those times. He said different seasons, weather ...

Scientists have assumed that a low salinity would act as a barrier to a further spread into the Baltic Sea, but a new study shows that the oysters can adapt quickly and possibly spread into brackish ...

People become infected with Vibrio vulnificus by exposing an open wound to contaminated saltwater or brackish water, or by eating raw or undercooked seafood, especially oysters. Earlier this month ...

Oysters thrive in brackish water, a mixture of fresh and salt water. The rapid introduction of more fresh water from rain run-off disrupted the balance, leading to the oysters' deaths.