As the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement’s deadline approaches, oyster restoration in the region has met its checkpoint. In the agreement, signed more than a decade ago, 10 specific tributaries were ...

Enjoy wild-caught and farmed Maryland oysters at 60+ restaurants, support ORP shell recycling for Bay restoration—kicks off with Guinness Oyster & Music Festival, backed by MDA’s Maryland’s Best.

A massive sewage spill that dumped 240 million gallons into the Potomac River continues to devastate the oyster industry, ...

Oysters are thriving at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, and the news continues to get better for the mollusks and local watermen. In the past 20 years, the oyster population has grown from 2.4 ...

It would be a quiet and peaceful morning at the edge of the Choptank River in Cambridge, Maryland, if not for the forklifts racing around the pier, scraping 5-foot-tall metal cages along the ground as ...

Maryland oyster growers and Chesapeake Bay advocates held an oyster roast Tuesday on Lawyers Mall outside the State House in Annapolis. There were oysters on the grill, oysters on the half shell — and ...

With global plastic production projected to top 445 million tons next year, Maryland scientists say microplastic pollution is posing growing risks to the Chesapeake Bay — and to the oysters and people ...

Move over, Maine and Maryland! There's another state that's revered for its oysters when it comes to both production and quality.

With no wind to speak of, the water was calm along a pier on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. And with no clouds to speak of, the sun beat down on Xuqing Chen as she filled a mesh cage with oysters on a hot ...