VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach is working on keeping our water as clean as possible through oyster reefs. We visited their marsh overlook with looks out on Owl's Creek.

A network of oyster nurseries set up to help restore marine habitat have filtered almost half a million bathtubs worth of water in just one year, conservationists say. A scheme to bring the native ...

MAALAEA — A total of 518 caged Pacific oysters were dropped into Maalaea Bay on Friday morning to clean pollutants and harmful bacteria from the ocean in the Valley Isle’s first-ever oyster filtration ...

Oyster lovers who also like protecting the Chesapeake Bay can do so by donating oyster shells to a program that recycles them.The Save Our Shell program is run by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and ...

Last summer, Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) began a phytoplankton and shellfish monitoring program in Ketchikan as part of the Southeast Alaska Tribal Toxins Program. KIC tests samples, and informs ...

OLYMPIA — A new online shellfish safety map provides recreational shellfish harvesters an up-to-date look at biotoxins, pollution and bacteria levels at public beaches or on private property. Beach ...

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