The Chesapeake Bay’s once-moribund oyster industry has been on a roll recently, and last season Maryland watermen hauled in their biggest harvest in 36 years — 623,000 bushels. After an “exceptional” ...

Across the Chesapeake Bay, the wild oyster season is over but it closed last month with some welcome news: The annual survey of baby oysters known as “spat” shows Maryland’s population is hanging in ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s oyster population is continuing to rebound, with more oysters surviving diseases that have plagued the shellfish in the past and hindered Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts, ...

>> IF THE TIDE REQUIRES A SHELL FISHERMAN IS UP WITH THE SUN, THE OYSTER FLATS OF GLOW AT DAYBREAK. THE HARVEST IS FRUITFUL. MID-SUMMER IS PEAK SEASON FOR OYSTERS. JON HOOD LOCALS CALL IT JOHNNY CLAM ...

A waterman tonged for oysters nearby as the diesel-powered Miss Kay chugged out from Oxford to join him in searching for shellfish in Maryland’s Tred Avon River. The first drag of the vessel’s dredge ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ Fall Oyster Survey recorded a remarkable year for juvenile oysters in Maryland waters, finding prolific numbers throughout the Chesapeake Bay. The ...

In the 1880s, the oyster commercial harvest in Delaware Bay reached a peak of 2.4 million. Scientists in Delaware and Chesapeake are working to fix the oyster habitat disappearing. Some eateries also ...

<p><br>The 2008 Winter Dredge Survey seems poised to enter the ranks of depressing reports about the health of the Chesapeake Bay, though there are a few hopeful signs.<P> The preliminary results of ...

As massive as it is at more than 900 pages, the latest report on Chesapeake Bay oyster management by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources can be distilled to one major finding — sanctuaries ...

Maryland's oyster harvest season, an annual rite of fall on the Eastern Shore, kicks off Oct. 1. From then until the season closes March 31, hundreds of fishermen will scour oyster bars in the ...