GRAND ISLE – Not all jewels have the deep green features of emeralds or sparkle of diamonds. Some tumble from algae-coated cages in a rush of rock and shell, briny water splashing alongside them onto ...

Pearl oyster farming represents a sophisticated intersection of aquaculture, marine biology and sustainable economic development. The production process involves the careful selection of oysters, the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — News 3 has followed along as people in Hampton Roads have worked to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waterways. This week there's a new emphasis on the cleanup efforts ...

Florida’s oyster population has declined during the past 15 years because of overharvest, hurricanes, changing environmental conditions and more. In particular, Apalachicola Bay has seen a pronounced ...

Charleston oysterman Thomas Bierce holds up two oyster shells. The first has been washed, tumbled and grated while the other has been plucked naturally from the water in a cluster. “They respond to ...

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a family tradition ...

Eric Stettner, a first-year oyster farmer working 150 cages on five acres of the Great South Bay, hit a jackpot of sorts last week when he was told his application for a grant to buy more gear had ...

Weathered picnic tables by the beach. Red cafeteria trays, sleeves of saltines, squeeze bottles of cocktail sauce. Smoke curling from the grill as oysters sizzle — a true taste of old Florida. You can ...

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, women are making efforts to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves. Hundreds of women in the West African nation were ...