The Town of Oyster Bay needs volunteers to sort through shells of oysters and clams consumed at the upcoming Oyster Fest. The goal is to support habitat restoration and growing new shellfish. Oyster ...

NFL Green, the league’s environmental program, hoped to complete a local marine conservation project in the host city of Super Bowl LVII in 2023. Just one problem. The game was in Arizona. “Big, big, ...

Fishermen have taken oysters out of the Long Island Sound off Connecticut for generations. But Todd Koehnke and Tim Macklin have made it their mission to dump millions of old shells back in. Oyster ...

For years, Maryland has participated in celebrating National Oyster Day on Aug. 5. Although many gastronomists still encourage oyster consumption in months that end in “R,” this rule has become more ...

Oyster Fest weekend has become a local holiday on the North Shore of Long Island. Annually, more than 150,000 people pack Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park and Audrey Avenue in the historic hamlet of ...

Oyster shells from local restaurants in the Town of North Hempstead will soon help fuel a growing marine restoration movement on Long Island as officials expand oyster gardening and shell recycling ...

Louisiana's only large-scale oyster shell recycling program is expanding to Baton Rouge, helping to create more living shorelines instead of landfill pileup. Through the initiative run by the ...

Oyster Bay is weighing a six-month ban on shell fishing in parts of Oyster Bay and Cold Spring harbors as soon as October, when a private company's lease to farm the underwater area expires. The ...