Visitors at Freeport's annual Oyster Festival got to meet the farmers behind the shellfish, deepening appreciation for ...

"We still have a ways to go." Volunteers work with oysters on critical project that could profoundly change ocean waters: ...

Even if the method involves using crab pee to scare baby oysters. ... 2023: A crew including scouts from Troop 292 and 251 helps pass bundles of oyster shells to Dauphin Island Sea Lab researchers.

The oyster shells would be planted in the mud flats of Harbor River to create a surface that baby oysters can stick to and grow. Drew Martin [email protected] ...

By recycling and replanting the shells, oysters can use them to build new reefs where baby oysters can grow and continue to support other marine life, according to the NOAA.

BUSBY: The little lab oyster babies are about the size of a dime and grow best when stuck on the larger oyster shells. This process is called spat on shell. Baby oysters are called spats.

Minor League Baseball teams are always looking to grab some attention. Every wacky promo night or uniform update or alternate ...

"The baby oysters are the spat set on the shell. Then we sail away to Fort Carroll, where we are building the oyster sanctuary and have been since 1997." So what is the success rate of that?

Delaware Sea Grant’s pilot oyster hatchery recently sent 200 bags of shell with roughly 105,000 oyster spat — or baby oysters — to a commercial aquaculture operation in the Delaware Bay using larvae ...

With summer comes the time to highlight oyster restoration in Virginia by fostering a baby oyster, and as a result, helping ...

To date, about 180 million spat-on-shell, 15,000 bushels of wild seed and almost 230,000 bushels of recycled oyster shell have been planted on public oyster bars in 11 Maryland counties.