Oysters are a stationary species, and that is why they were hit hard when record amounts of fresh water headed down the Mississippi River were diverted into Lake Pontchartrain and from there into ...

Louisiana and Mississippi oystermen can’t seem to catch a break. The industry has been damaged by Hurricane Katrina, cheap imports, high gas prices and the perception that Gulf oysters were not ...

Oyster harvester Mitch Jurisich holds two dead oysters on a boat near Empire, Louisiana. Jurisich says weeks of freshwater from the flooding Mississippi River have killed many of the oysters on ...

THIBODAUX — A local scientist says that unless the state immediately reduces the amount of freshwater ... freshwater flow when oysters are threatened. There are more river diversions planned ...

The Bronx River has the distinction of being the only freshwater river in New York ... these groups have enlisted oysters as an ally. They act as a natural filtration system in a body of water ...

Turbidity from the river water was seen as far east as the Belle Fontaine area, he said. The state's oyster reefs were the primary causalities of the freshwater. "We've seen mortality rates ranging ...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — Freshwater discharges from Lake Okeechobee are playing havoc with the salinity needed for oyster beds and seagrass. SPECIAL COVERAGE: Protecting Paradise WPTV spoke with ...

(CBS12) — Right now, oysters and sea grass are dying because of the freshwater discharges from ... then later deploy them in in the Indian River Lagoon. "Some people see it as a Friday morning ...

If you think oysters are just delicious seafood, think again. Freshwater oysters produce an adhesive that may hold the secret to developing more environmentally friendly glues with applications ...