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 ...

The event is also a kind of contest, complete with a WrestleMania-style gold belt for the elected official who eats the most oysters.

This week, Feast and Field is headed to the Eastern Shore in Cape Charles, Virginia, to dive into the world of oysters. We meet the team behind Cherrystone Aqua-Farms, environmentalists and innovators ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WFXR) — Oysters have been harvested in Virginia for more than 400 years. However, in recent decades, disease, overharvest, pollution, and environmental factors have caused a ...

The Marine Aquaculture Research for America Act would promote commercial-scale aquaculture research to study the viability ...

Chesapeake Bay oyster farmers still rely on technologies their great-great-grandparents invented, including dropping a bamboo pole to the seabed to feel for good locations to seed young oysters. But a ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WFXR) — Oysters have ...