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 ...

DUXBURY -- An oyster farm south of Boston is shipping their harvest around the country. Island Creek Oysters of Duxbury was the first oyster farm on the South Shore. "We spawn oysters, so people get ...

ROCKPORT — AJ Minns and his wife, Debbie, took turns scooping the first of about 270,000 oyster seed into mesh bags. Dozens of community members, friends and colleagues, invited by Minns, joined the ...

In 1986, Pemaquid Oyster Co. in Bristol was one of only a few oyster farms in Maine. “One of my friends said it was like belonging to a country club but, instead of going golfing on a Saturday, we’d ...

The MARA Act remains in committee, but researchers and growers said its outcome could shape the future of aquaculture in ...

Groton — Will Ceddia tips the laundry basket of small oysters into a spinning metal tumbler that separates the smaller oysters from the larger ones. Once they’ve been separated by size, he scoops ...

Over the years, the Chesapeake Bay’s native oyster population largely has disappeared because of over-harvesting and disease. In the past decade, however, a new oyster aquaculture movement has taken ...

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 ...

For Thomas Henninger, founder of the Madeleine Point Oyster Farm, oyster farming was his “redemption.” Henninger spent his early life working on a commercial fishing boat, where he felt deeply ...

At a dock along Chatham County's Bull River, Perry and Laura Solomon repeat what has become a familiar routine over the last eight months. Bundled in waterproof coveralls, winter coats and stocking ...

LITTLE BRITTON ISLAND — Susan Woollen has lived in several spots over the past six decades, but time and again she has returned to the secluded island that has been in her family for a century. It’s a ...