Copps Island Oysters in Fair Haven. At the celebration, the Blooms detailed plans for renovating their historic buildings, and creating a new hatchery to help them “ get to the 21st century.”. In New ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Weathered sticks peek like day-old whiskers out of the murky harbor here, not far offshore from the fuel tank farms, aging factories and highways that line the waterfront. … ...

ST. MARY’S COUNTY, Md. — No oyster could thrive on the muddy and sandy bottom of St. Jerome Creek, but there they are. Inside submerged metal cages, millions of the shellfish form portable ...

Those figures are down from 2021’s record-setting 5 million-pound, $11.2 million harvest, and the state’s oyster farming numbers in general are dwarfed by Maine’s 108 million-pound, $725 ...

David Wong Chun-kit carefully pushes his knife into an oyster, between the two sides of its shell. He wiggles the blade back and forth to sever the muscle that holds it closed, and then gently ...

Getting up at 4 a.m. to wade out into freezing seawater may not sound like an ideal retirement, but 65-year-old Jim Ferry says he can't think of a better way to spend his later years. Mr. Ferry ...

Back in 2015, environmental and bird advocates raised concern over oyster farming in southern New Jersey, especially in an area called, misleadingly, the Delaware Bayshore. The beaches of New Jersey, ...

Oyster farming has grown from a few operations 40 years ago to about 150 farms today, driven by an optimal growing environment, conducive regulations, a strong market and training programs.

One adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. In Maine, where the water is cold and clean, oysters are thriving. In 1997, there were four oyster farms with half a million oysters.