Whether you like eating them raw or steamed, with a dash of hot sauce or lemon, oysters are a staple of the N.C. coast.

And because of all the organic material that accumulates in the reefs, oysters themselves might also help to absorb some of ...

Aquafarmer Kellen Singleton loves oysters. But warming waters are challenging their future. Kellen Singleton is passionate about oysters. The aquafarmer, who works in the waters of Virginia's Eastern ...

This is the great American oyster, the species that occurs naturally from Canada down the East Coast to New York and Chesapeake Bay and all the way across the Gulf. This oversized thimble of an oyster ...

Most food tastes better fresh, but nothing suffers from being served stale quite like a plate of oysters. Fresh, they capture everything magical about the ocean. Stale, they taste like yesterday's ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ Fall Oyster Survey recorded a remarkable year for juvenile oysters in Maryland waters, finding prolific numbers throughout the Chesapeake Bay. The ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has selected the next three sites for large-scale oyster restoration in Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay, marking the beginning of the state’s next ...

Mike Voisin from Motivatit Seafoods in Houma, La., gives an update on the status of newly re-opened oyster beds in the eastern part of the state. The beds have been closed since Hurricane Katrina.