The water fill inside the oyster should be clear and almost level with the shell; the meat ivory-colored, intact and supple with good flex.

Matunuck Oyster Bar in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, offers a tour of the oyster farming process. Matunuck Oyster Bar in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, offers a tour of the oyster farming process ...

New York City is coming up pearls. For the second time this month, a restaurant patron has chomped down on an oyster only to find a valuable pearl. Kristin Pulaski, 29, found her very own bivalve b… ...

She can depict just about anything inside an oyster shell, from mermaids to turtles and crabs. “I love anything to do with the sea,” she says.

Oysters await their trip to the fryer at the Ham and Oyster Dinner at Saint Thomas' Episcopal Church in Glassboro, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. Al Amrhein | For NJ Advance Media Don't Edit ...