Oysters were a source of sustenance for centuries before the Georgia colony’s founding. A century ago, when canned oysters were a staple, the state’s annual oyster crop topped 8 million pounds a year.
During reef assessments conducted each fall, MDMR observed growing numbers of oyster larvae attached to adult oyster shells, agency leaders said. It takes these attached larvae, known as spat, one to ...
Kurlansky writes that Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan was built with oyster shell mortar, and the nearby Pearl Street, originally on the waterfront, got its name from a 'midden', a mountain of ...