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 ...

This Earth Day (April 22, 2025) marks the online launch of a groundbreaking documentary, City of Shells: Our Forgotten Oyster ...

The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is an ecosystem engineer that creates intertidal reefs, filters water, promotes denitrification, stabilizes shorelines, and provides habitat throughout the ...

Armed with oyster shells, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and SCORE volunteers deploy a natural remedy to slow ...

This is the fifth consecutive year of “solid” reproduction and that’s good news not only for those of us who delight in ...

In 2022, another local oyster reef project was constructed by the Coastal ... and constructed throughout 2025 and 2026 to provide habitat and a feeding area for over a hundred species of fish ...

A small team is rescuing a “ridiculous amount” of shells from restaurant trash bins and using them to rebuild oyster habitat ...

We first showed you these reef balls in 2021. They were installed in December of that year and they were made of oyster ...