The conveyor belt of volunteers stands in ankle-deep water, passing mesh bags full of emptied oyster shells. The regulars ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s almost been a year since the Nature Conservancy started the Save Our Shells Oyster Recycling Program. It is part of a mission to recycle oyster shells from restaurants ...

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 ...

GRAND BAYOU, La. (WVUE) - For centuries, the people of Grand Bayou—a remote, boat-accessible village west of the Mississippi River—have called the disappearing coastline of Plaquemines Parish home.

The Town of Hempstead is building two reefs in the western bays off of Lido Beach using seafood shells. Supervisor Laura Gillen says the plan will save the shores from erosion and the bays from ...

Planning is underway to select locations for up to six restored oyster reefs in bays of the Mission-Aransas Estuary. Project partners are currently considering public feedback, including insights ...

On a hot Friday morning, the sun beat down on volunteers gathered at the edge of the water in southern Plaquemines Parish. They passed heavy sacks of oyster shells to each other down a line. “I feel ...

Dozens of high school students and other volunteers spent Friday morning stuffing recycled oyster shells into mesh bags — the first step in a plan to create a "living reef" to fight land loss along ...

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 ...

Video footage of an oyster reef built on a river bed two years ago has revealed it is now full of life compared to the surrounding area. The reef, in the River Hamble, home to about 30,000 oysters, ...