In a new outdoor classroom over the Indian River Lagoon, students are learning concrete ways to protect the environment around them with oysters. The program is part of Brevard Zoo’s ‘Restore Our ...

Mississippi oyster farmers are urging Congress to pass a federal aquaculture bill they say could cut red tape, expand U.S.

For my presentation on a scientific paper in “Global Change in Marine Systems”, I looked at a scientific paper titled the “Effects of Gear Characteristics on the Presence of Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus ...

THE oysters of Australia are being thoroughly investigated by the Division of Fisheries, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. In the first of the series of pamphlets on the biology and ...

Restoring oyster reefs is not an easy task, but by digging deep and examining centuries-old reefs, marine restoration professionals may stand a better chance at bringing oysters back, suggests a new ...

(1) THE earlier course of Buckland Lectures is devoted to the oyster, a full investigation of which was subsidized for some years, commencing in 1919, by the Empire Marketing Board acting through the ...

The first person who discovered pearls must have believed he stumbled across a bit of magic. Pull apart the valves of a living oyster, and a beautiful spherical gem of calcium carbonate may lay inside ...

There is no greater delicacy than a plate of live, briny bivalves—and no richer source of them than the Gulf Coast. Yet in Galveston Bay, where acres of reefs were obliterated by Hurricane Ike, empty ...

A popular edible mushroom is spreading beyond cultivation and turning up in forests across the country. Early evidence hints ...