It's Chesapeake Oyster Week, so Allison Albert Guercio, with the Oyster Recovery Partnership, shares with 11 News what the shell-recycling program is and why it's important for the Chesapeake Bay.

A small team is rescuing a “ridiculous amount” of shells from restaurant trash bins and using them to rebuild oyster habitat in Long Island Sound.

Divers took buckets of 125 million oyster larvae and placed them on reefs made of recycled oyster shells.

You can recycle your used oyster shells for a great cause thanks to the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary.

On Monday, March 31 – National Oysters on the Half Shell Day -- Fish City Grill and Half Shells will feature their new proprietary oyster, the Mystic Mermaid, for $18 for a half-dozen oysters.

The bar on Staunton Street uses oyster shells discarded by fish eatery Hooked on Caine Road to concoct an effervescent, refreshing drink.

Step back, shot girls — for a truly hot NYC party in 2025, you need oyster girls. “Basically, it’s like kissing a mermaid,” one person said.

The inner shell is smooth, iridescent, glowing. Slug down the actual oyster (“my tongue was a filling estuary, my palate hung with starlight”) and the shell itself has many uses.

These are all neighbors that are saying, ‘Yeah, count me in, I want to grow a baby oyster.’” Huntington Harbour Yacht Club members Judy and Jim Cassidy take an oyster shell strand on Sunday.

The Town of Oyster Bay needs volunteers to sort through shells of oysters and clams consumed at the upcoming Oyster Fest. The goal is to support habitat restoration and growing new shellfish.

Oyster Bay Town officials are weighing a six-month ban of shellfish harvesting in Oyster Bay and Cold Spring harbors as soon as October.