The Quandamooka people of eastern Australia, who descend from the precolonial oyster fishers, raise young oysters today and stock them on artificial reefs made of recycled shells.

Durham, along with his PhD adviser Gregory Dietl, has excavated thousands of eastern oyster shells from sites in Louisiana, the Carolinas, and Connecticut over the past several years.

Eastern oyster. The upper shell of the eastern oyster is thick and highly arched, and the lower shell is smoother and flat. This mollusk is highly important to the environment: ...

The upper shell of the eastern oyster is thick and highly arched, and the lower shell is smoother and flat. This mollusk is highly important to the environment: just one oyster can filter more ...

The raw bar castoffs -- about 2,000 per week -- are sent to an Eastern Shore oyster hatchery and then back to the Chesapeake Bay. ... the oyster shells don't go in the trash.

The link between these hopes is the Eastern oyster. For the past year, volunteers have been collecting shells from area restaurants and piled them along the shorelines of the Tolomato River.

2500 B.C.: The earliest evidence of oyster harvesting — shell deposits called middens — indicate that people living in the Chesapeake region were eating oysters and other shellfish as long as ...

An Oyster Recovery Partnership sticker promoting sustainable oyster consumption practices on the Shell Recycling Alliance’s truck, Nov. 9, 2017, at the group’s shell pile in Grasonville, Md ...

To date, they have recycled over 1,000 tons of oyster shells! The 2024 Oyster & SeaFest at the Waterworks at Buffalo Bayou Park is on Saturday, April 6th from 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.