For the first time since 2018, commercial oyster harvesters will be able to catch and gather the popular mollusks five days a week, according to new regulations from the Maryland Department of Natu… ...

Starting Sunday, oyster enthusiasts will once again be free to pick up their rakes and tongs and harvest Maryland’s signature shellfish delicacy from the floor of the Chesapeake Bay and its ...

Right now, watermen are allowed to harvest there only with tongs — large, heavy, scissors-like rakes pushed together manually to scoop oysters.

A oysterman tongs for oysters. State officials are moving to limit oyster fishing in the hopes of preserving Alabama's shrinking oyster reefs. (Press-Register/Susanica Tam, file) MONTGOMERY, Ala ...

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 ...

Five generations of Philip Vinson's family have labored using tongs to pull oysters from Apalachicola Bay's shallow waters. He fears there won't be a sixth. CBS News Miami: Free 24/7 News; ...

To increase the number of oysters spawning on public water bottoms, Louisiana plans to forbid harvesting on four artificial reefs east of the Mississippi River in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes.

To try to save it, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has shut down wild oyster harvesting for as long as five years, barring nearly everyone on the water from carrying tongs.