Seafood and coastal dining are a given in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. From blue crab, Lowcountry boils and she-crab soup, the options are almost endless. But one item on the menu serves more than ...

Georgetown Technical College Wildlife Society club has a new partnership with the SC Department of Natural Resources to expand oyster recycling.

When we go out to eat and have oysters, we see the shells just get tossed away. But, the Galveston Bay Foundation in Texas is collecting those leftover shells to increase the number of oyster beds, ...

For years, Maryland has participated in celebrating National Oyster Day on Aug. 5. Although many gastronomists still encourage oyster consumption in months that end in “R,” this rule has become more ...

Oyster shells are not garbage. That is the message from conservation groups, which say people have been recycling shells along U.S. coastlines for generations. Today's recycling efforts are highly ...

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Once you've shucked and slurped oysters out of their shells, it doesn't feel quite right to dump the iridescent beauties into the garbage can, later crushed and incinerated among all of the other ...

Fishermen have taken oysters out of the Long Island Sound off Connecticut for generations. But Todd Koehnke and Tim Macklin have made it their mission to dump millions of old shells back in. Oyster ...

Louisiana's only large-scale oyster shell recycling program is expanding to Baton Rouge, helping to create more living shorelines instead of landfill pileup. Through the initiative run by the ...

The decision for the closure was made after the department determined there weren’t enough legal-sized oysters, or oysters that are three inches or greater, in the area.