Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Chesapeake Oyster Alliance served oysters grown by Maryland aquaculture businesses at their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement’s deadline approaches, oyster restoration in the region has met its checkpoint. In the ...

The Chesapeake Bay Program is a massive collaboration of states, nonprofits and federal agencies. Late last year, the group ...

In a major victory for oyster restoration, a coalition of federal, state, and local partners celebrated a historic achievement in Annapolis on Wednesday: the restoration of about 2,000 acres of oyster ...

Oysters are thriving at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, and the news continues to get better for the mollusks and local watermen. In the past 20 years, the oyster population has grown from 2.4 ...

It would be a quiet and peaceful morning at the edge of the Choptank River in Cambridge, Maryland, if not for the forklifts racing around the pier, scraping 5-foot-tall metal cages along the ground as ...

With global plastic production projected to top 445 million tons next year, Maryland scientists say microplastic pollution is posing growing risks to the Chesapeake Bay — and to the oysters and people ...

Crassostrea virginica has occupied a prominent position in the ecology and economy of the Chesapeake Bay. In the early colonial period, oysters were so abundant that reefs posed navigational ...

As the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement’s deadline approaches, oyster restoration in the region has met its checkpoint. In the agreement, signed more than a decade ago, 10 specific tributaries were ...

Chesapeake Bay oysters had another good year in 2024, new Maryland data shows. Oyster reproduction levels were above the median for the fifth straight year, according to the Maryland Department of ...

The Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, 1 is native to coastal waters from the St. Lawrence River in Canada to the Atlantic coast of Argentina (Carriker and Gaffney, 1996). It was an important ...