The next time you order oysters or clams at a restaurant in New Jersey, your dinner could help protect the coastline from the ...

Discarded oyster and clam shells from Jersey Shore restaurants are being collected and then used to build coastal reefs ...

New Jersey environmental officials and food distributor Sysco Corporation announced a partnership Nov. 10 to recycle seafood ...

The program has already collected 550 tons of shells since 2019, with the food distributor's network expected to dramatically ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...

It’s well before the lunch hour when a worker lugs a large plastic storage bin out of the kitchen at the Bluewater Grill in Newport Beach and into the back of Kaysha Kenney’s minivan. The bin is full ...

Cal State biologists and the group Orange County Coastkeeper are working together to use oyster shells from local restaurants to restore the once-abundant oyster beds along the coast and, by doing ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCBD) – Nearly 20 volunteers with Charleston Waterkeeper lent a hand to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources on Monday to keep Lowcountry waterways clean. The two ...

Palm Beach County Fishing Foundation Executive Director Tom Twyford said the program aims to improve the water quality and clarity of the lagoon by giving local oysters a new habitat. Oyster shells ...

On a recent Sunday, a group of volunteers set off into Oyster Bay Harbor on a 26-foot vessel loaded with a few dozen oyster-filled cages. The oysters were tiny at the start of the summer — smaller ...

A historian inspects oysters from a reef on the Nansemond River, in Virginia. Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot / Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the ...

The Myrtle Beach area offers several ways to take advantage of the fall oyster harvesting season, from places to harvest your own shellfish, to regular oyster roasts. Travis Long ...