PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — At The Tides restaurant in Safety Harbor, customers often open wide for oysters: “Yeah, they’re just tasty!” said Luceli Castanon, sitting at a corner table with two friends.

And the nasty discovery she made after pulling out the filter of a recent client’s dishwasher might prove exactly why she dreads cleaning them. “You can usually smell it as soon as you open the ...

The Blue Marine Foundation is a conservation organization that is dedicated to improving the health of the ocean by addressing overfishing. One of its key strategies is to restore marine habitats, and ...

Last week, our own Sarah DiGregorio taught us how to get cheap oysters and bubbles and shuck the oysters. This week, in our final cooking tip from Buddakan (75 Ninth Avenue) Exec Chef Lon Symensma, we ...

With the skilled pass of his Dexter blade and delicate cleaning of a Lowcountry oyster, Charleston-native Ivan Fields has ...

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation had volunteers from the Back Country Hunters and Anglers Armed Forces Initiative out to their Shady Side site to clean and load oyster shells into cages to be used to ...

What better time could there be than September to celebrate recent news that the Chesapeake Bay Program has met — even exceeded — its goals for restoring native oyster reefs? September is when cooling ...

Construction has begun on a new pier at the mouth of the Gowanus canal, which will house a park and oyster reef to naturally filter and purify the polluted Superfund site, the Associated Press has ...

When you think of “mighty” animals, a few that may come to mind are lions, tigers and bears (oh my!). The oyster is probably at the bottom of the list. But did you know that one adult oyster can clean ...

New York Harbor is getting a pearl of underwater development off the shores of Brooklyn — one that will rival Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in terms of ecological importance. The Billion Oyster ...