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Dayton Hall, left, and Jackson Mountjoy use calipers to measure a baby oyster at the school's oyster garden in Bay St. Louis, Miss. The school is among more than 50 locations in Mississippi and more than 1,000 nationwide where people raise oysters to hel

Volunteers are growing oyster gardens to help restore reefs

Dec 15, 2021
There are more than 1,000 oyster gardens in the coastal waters of Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama as volunteers try to restore a keystone of coastal ecosystems.
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Coronavirus Live Updates

Business Adapts To Deliver The World, In A Long Island Oyster, Door To Door

May 11, 2020
As sales to restaurant clients dried up, oyster farmer Peter Stein had to adapt or perish. Now, he's delivering oysters directly to individual customers, doing about 20% of his usual business.
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National
Kenichi Wiegardt is a fifth-generation oyster grower. He's worried he'll be the last in his family if the coronavirus doesn't get better and trade doesn't pick up again to China and other Pacific Rim countries. Exports there make up the majority of his f

Some U.S. Farmers Boxed In By Coronavirus Outbreak

Feb 25, 2020
Fewer ships from China are docking in the U.S., which hurts U.S. farmers who send exports on the ships' return trips. And perishables that do make it sometimes rot on the docks in China.
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National
The shucking house at Bon Secour Fisheries in Alabama has just three shuckers working this year because of a lack of oysters.

Fisheries And Fishermen Hard Hit By Decline Of Oysters On Gulf Coast

Nov 28, 2019
Record flooding on the Mississippi River sent too much fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico, killing oysters and crippling other seafood harvests that depend on saltwater to survive.
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The Salt
<a href="http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wwno/files/styles/x_large/public/201811/img-6038_1__1.jpg"> </a> Thomas "Uptown T" Stewart (left), has been shucking oysters at Pascal's Manale restaurant for more than 30 years, about as long as Paula (mid

As Climate Changes, Is Eating Raw Oysters Getting Riskier?

Dec 10, 2018
Tighter regulations on oyster harvesting have helped reduce the number of people affected by the deadly bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, but warming waters have allowed the bacteria to expand and thrive.
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The Salt
Randall Clarke Dennis, left, an instructor at the Harbor School, watches students Timothy Morrison, middle, and Lijasad Maxwell, right, as they send 422 oyster reef structures into the Hudson River.

Oysters On The Half Shell Are Actually Saving New York's Eroding Harbor

Oct 10, 2018
More than 70 New York City restaurants are pouring their discarded shells into the Billion Oyster Project, through which students recycle and transform them into healthy reefs in once-toxic waters.
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National
Captain Shpend Berisha, left, at the helm of the Prestige Oysters boat The Diplomat while Francisco Vasquez, center, and Ekrem Sahiti pull in oysters in Galveston Bay.

Houston Ship Channel And Galveston Bay Digging Out After Harvey

Dec 10, 2017
The sediment and muddy freshwater that spilled into these Texas bodies of water are causing problems for the shipping and oyster industries.
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The Salt
An oyster grading machine sorts young oysters on the pier at Murder Point.

7 Years After BP Oil Spill, Oyster Farming Takes Hold In South

Jun 10, 2017
The "off-bottom" production method, in which oysters are grown in hanging baskets tumbled by waves, is starting to flourish on the Gulf coast — and demand for these boutique bivalves is growing.
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The Salt
The Hero is causing an oily sheen on the water, and will likely continue to do so until the vessel is removed.

A Forgotten Shipwreck Imperils Washington's Oysters

Mar 30, 2017
The sunken Hero, an Antarctic research vessel from the 1960s, is leaking oil into Willapa Bay, where more than half of the state's oysters are grown. And no one knows how to remove it.
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The Salt
Torben Rick, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and lead author of the research, examines a 1,500-year-old oyster shell in the museum's collection.

Oyster Archaeology: Ancient Trash Holds Clues To Sustainable Harvesting

Jul 28, 2016
Modern-day oyster populations in the Chesapeake are dwindling, but a multi-millennia archaeological survey shows that wasn't always the case. Native Americans harvested the shellfish sustainably.
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The Salt
A low country oyster roast featured in <em>The Essential Oyster</em>, a book by Rowan Jacobsen to be published by Bloomsbury in October 2016.

Why The Southeast Could Become The Napa Valley Of Oysters

Jan 27, 2016
Oysters from the Pacific Northwest have long been the most coveted for their sweet, mild flavor. But they now have more competition from Southeast oysters cultivated from Virginia down to Florida.
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The Salt
<em>The Birth of Venus, </em>by Sandro Botticelli, depicts the goddess of love floating on a giant scallop shell. The word aphrodisiac derives from her Greek name, Aphrodite.

Aphrodisiacs Can Spark Sexual Imagination, But Probably Not Libido

Jul 04, 2015
Going on a picnic with someone special? Make sure to pack watermelon, a food that lore says is an aphrodisiac. No food is actually scientifically linked to desire, but here's how some got that rep.
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