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 ...

Baltimore Police officials told The Baltimore Sun they will continue using weekend roadblocks and checkpoint-style traffic controls in Fells Point, doubling down on one of the city’s most visible ...

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 ...

Weather shapes Chesapeake Bay oysters, as rain, drought and storms change salinity, affecting oyster health, harvests and ...

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 ...

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 ...