Seafood and coastal dining are a given in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. From blue crab, Lowcountry boils and she-crab soup, the options are almost endless. But one item on the menu serves more than ...

For years, Maryland has participated in celebrating National Oyster Day on Aug. 5. Although many gastronomists still encourage oyster consumption in months that end in “R,” this rule has become more ...

Louisiana's only large-scale oyster shell recycling program is expanding to Baton Rouge, helping to create more living shorelines instead of landfill pileup. Through the initiative run by the ...

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - A South Carolina agency and a Lowcountry nonprofit are teaming up Tuesday afternoon to reach their goal of restoring the marshes and cleaning the environment, but they need ...

Recycling oyster shells from restaurants not only provides reef habitat for new oysters and other fish, but it also benefits the marine economy and enables the mollusks to improve the environment by ...

One night in March, Jason Pitre left his Bayou Rosa Oyster Farm in Leeville with sacks of oysters bound for a fundraiser in New Orleans. He’d just pulled those oysters from the waters of Bayou ...

On a recent spring evening at Crave Fishbar in New York City, the oysters resting on beds of ice hailed from Long Island, Virginia, Washington, Cape Cod, and British Columbia. But once they’d been ...