Pacific oysters have a long history of gracing restaurant menus in Southern California. The water-filtering shellfish has also been grown in local waters for nearly a quarter of a century. The ...

Pacific oysters are a mainstay in the Northwest. A little known fact: They’re native to Japan and have been cultured there for hundreds of years. The man credited for importing the Pacific oyster in ...

Here’s a look at the humble oyster, from the West Coast and beyond. Remember the old saying that oysters are in season only in months with the letter R in their names? That’s because May through ...

The Pacific oyster has established itself in Bohuslän at record speed, and now it has been sighted as far down as the Sound. The question is whether the oysters will continue their journey into the ...

The world is your oyster — and it may have an STD. A deadly herpes virus called Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) is infecting the Pacific oyster population and threatening to spread across the world, ...

BREMERHAVEN, Germany, April 11 (UPI) -- Pacific oysters introduced to European waters in the 1970s are growing in numbers researchers have characterized as a harmless invasion. French oyster breeders ...

The collapse began rather unspectacularly. In 2005, when most of the millions of Pacific oysters in this tree-lined estuary failed to reproduce, Washington’s shellfish growers largely shrugged it off.

“These oysters are from New Zealand, and these ones from Alabama,” said Jamie Davis at LTO, the pop-up that has been in residence on the patio at Guild Row all summer. The former had spiky, ...

Researchers have discovered that the abundance of tiny microplastic contaminants in Pacific oysters from the Salish Sea is much lower than previously thought. Plastic pollution is an increasingly ...

Oysters eat by filtering the water around them and digesting anything small enough to trap, whether that’s algae, phytoplankton — or tiny pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. It stands to reason ...