Thanks to dramatic improvements in water quality, some towns will soon be opening up the harbor for shellfish harvesting and ...

More than a decade after the once-iconic oyster began to fade in Apalachicola Bay — and five years after harvesting was shuttered completely — the storied oyster beds will open beginning Jan. 1.

For the first time in decades, water quality has improved enough to reclassify certain areas to allow shellfishing for human ...

Captain Richard Bosarge steers his 42-foot boat, the Royster, to the Henderson Point reefs near Pass Christian. It’s a small city 65 miles east of New Orleans, on the Gulf of Mexico. Bosarge and his ...

Heavier rains are triggering regulatory pauses on harvesting oysters and clams—and putting fishermen out of work.

The bay, which once supplied more than 90 percent of Florida’s oysters, has been on life support for nearly a decade.

SAVANNAH — The best oyster shucking advice is “take your time.” Many a hand has been bloodied and patience exhausted by rushing the exercise. As for harvesting oysters in Georgia in the hot summer ...