GRAND ISLE – Not all jewels have the deep green features of emeralds or sparkle of diamonds. Some tumble from algae-coated cages in a rush of rock and shell, briny water splashing alongside them onto ...

Pearl oyster farming represents a sophisticated intersection of aquaculture, marine biology and sustainable economic development. The production process involves the careful selection of oysters, the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — News 3 has followed along as people in Hampton Roads have worked to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waterways. This week there's a new emphasis on the cleanup efforts ...

Ice has destroyed thousands of dollars worth of gear and dragged oysters out to sea as it melts. For some farmers, the losses ...

Each day Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves to harvest oysters for sale. In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, oyster farming has been a key source of livelihood dominated for ages by women.

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, women are making efforts to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves. Hundreds of women in the West African nation were ...

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a family tradition ...

Weathered picnic tables by the beach. Red cafeteria trays, sleeves of saltines, squeeze bottles of cocktail sauce. Smoke curling from the grill as oysters sizzle — a true taste of old Florida. You can ...

The solar dryer is a game-changer for Kartong's oyster farmers, who are mostly women. It'll enable the women to process ...