A team of researchers released 125 million oyster larvae into the Gulf on Tuesday in an effort to boost oyster populations, ...

To give new life to shoreline habitats, a growing number of projects are harnessing the reef-building power of oysters.

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is woekingOn June 21, 2025, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources ...

Researchers call oyster reefs habitat multipliers since so many marine critters beyond oysters utilize them for foraging, spawning and living areas. An acre of the artificial reef, which lies just ...

Scientists warn that the future of our oceans and climate goals depends on reconnecting the ecological threads that hold ...

Of course, overharvesting, disease, pollution and habitat loss eventually devastated the Chesapeake oyster population. The big reefs were fished out by the 1920s. Five decades later, the industry ...

She said oyster reefs have been declining because of overharvesting and habitat destruction. “Oyster reefs, we’ve learned, are the most threatened marine habitat,” Pollack said. Oysters ...

In 2022, WJZ reported how the Chesapeake Bay's oyster reef habitat is becoming decimated because of over-harvest, disease in the oyster population, and pollution. "The oyster population is ...

From published sources spanning 350 years, the team of 37 researchers documented more than 1,000 locations where oyster fisheries and habitat once existed. Extensive reefs occurred along the ...