Mayor Bobby Wagner discusses oyster gardens, mooring fields and Norriego Point upgrades during monthly “fireside-chat” with ...

Every year, thousands of oyster shells are loaded onto a boat, hauled back off to the ocean, and replanted in creeks along the Lowcountry shore. It’s all part of SCDNR’s Shellfish Ground ...

The oyster shells used are recycled through SCDNR’s South Carolina Oyster Recycling and Enhancement (SCORE) program. Hodges said those recycled shells can range from a couple of years old to ...

So, after you slurp those oyster platters, don’t toss the shells. There are plenty of ways to support the environment while also enjoying a tasty Lowcountry meal.

Oyster shells play a vital role in South Carolina’s Lowcountry environment and history. Here’s why the shells are important for shorelines and marine life.

The oysters would attach themselves to the ribbed clay walls dusted with ground-up oyster shells. The nooks and crannies would provide habitat for other marine life, such as fish, shrimp and crabs ...

This is what we immediately wondered with Socio’s Oyster Shell, which reuses about 4.4kg of oyster shells monthly from Caine Road fish eatery and market Hooked.

Mr. Macklin, 51, and Mr. Koehnke, 50, fell into oyster shell recycling about a decade ago. They were members of a local shellfish commission and surprised to learn that Connecticut, unlike other ...

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.

The slate of five house-ground burgers ranges from the basic Harlow (American cheese, comeback sauce, $16) to the Black & Bleu (blackened patty, garlic blue cheese, crab, $21).

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.