Six million pounds of ancient oyster shells from a Charlotte County mine are now a thriving 3-acre reef in the mouth of the ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Rotary Club reported that the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) is working to study, protect ...

Dredging oyster shells may be the best way to boost the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population. Beginning in June, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources wants to hydraulically dredge 260,000 cubic ...

The Chesapeake Bay — the largest estuary in the continental United States — used to be packed with oysters, more than anyone today might imagine. Native Americans had been harvesting oysters there for ...

A new University of Michigan study that used fossil oyster shells as paleothermometers found the shallow sea that covered much of western North America 95 million years ago was as warm as today's ...