Note to readers: This is Part 5 in a five-part series. The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently met with Jose H. Leal at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel. Leal is ...

ANNAPOLIS — State legislation could ban the Maryland Department of Natural Resources from dredging the Chesapeake Bay’s Man O’ War Shoal for shells destined to become homes for new baby oysters ...

Dredging oyster shells may be the best way to boost the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population. Beginning in June, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources wants to hydraulically dredge 260,000 cubic ...

Now is the time for the Maryland Board of Public Works to approve funding for dredging of oyster shell deposits in the Man-O-War Shoal in the upper Chesapeake Bay. It has been more than 25 years of ...

Hong Kong's oyster reefs, almost decimated by over a century of dredging and land reclamation, are being restored by ...

Dredging of old oyster shells in the Chesapeake Bay near the Baltimore County shore was delayed Wednesday after protests by fishermen, a farmer and an environmental group. The Department of Natural ...

Everyone can apparently relax, at least for now: The dredging ships scooping up sand about 10 miles off Flagler Beach for the beach renourishment project are not threatening a reef that is home to a ...

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - The City of North Myrtle Beach is beginning work to restore oyster beds disturbed during the dredging of the Cherry Grove Canals. Truckloads of oyster shells are on ...