Over the years, the Chesapeake Bay’s native oyster population largely has disappeared because of over-harvesting and disease. In the past decade, however, a new oyster aquaculture movement has taken ...

This week, Feast and Field is headed to the Eastern Shore in Cape Charles, Virginia, to dive into the world of oysters. We meet the team behind Cherrystone Aqua-Farms, environmentalists and innovators ...

Everybody on the Eastern Shore knows oysters matter. They clean the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, support watermen and oyster ...

Chesapeake Bay oyster farmers still rely on technologies their great-great-grandparents invented, including dropping a bamboo pole to the seabed to feel for good locations to seed young oysters. But a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Riding a wave of growth and popularity of the state’s aquaculture, Virginia officials on Tuesday announced the creation of the Virginia Oyster Trail to connect travelers to the ...

GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. — Virginia’s shellfish aquaculture industry has grown significantly over the past five years, according to the 2024 Virginia Aquaculture Outlook Report from William & Mary’s ...

Charleston oysterman Thomas Bierce holds up two oyster shells. The first has been washed, tumbled and grated while the other has been plucked naturally from the water in a cluster. “They respond to ...

Everybody loves a feel-good success story about a local business. Along the Great South Bay of Long Island, that reigns even more true. Toasted Oysters, a local oyster farm operating from Islip, has ...