Oyster numbers are up this year, but they're nowhere near historic levels for the Chesapeake. So, oyster growers have teamed up to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

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.

Barrier Beauties’ oysters don’t spawn (that makes them triploids), so it’s less likely for a customer to receive one that looks milky or overly creamy during the summer.

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.

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.

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 ...

Work required. Maintaining an oyster garden typically requires a few hours of labor per week from late spring through fall. Cost. Members of the Suffolk Project in Aquaculture Training, or SPAT ...