The tiny native oysters of San Francisco Bay managed to outlive the Gold Rush, bay-shore development and decades of punishing pollution. New research shows they have a fighting chance to survive ...

SA’s oyster industry is on a knife’s edge, with multiple farms forced to shut and farmers turning to drastic measures to save ...

During the last two or three years several private beds of eastern oysters have been established in different parts of Willapa Bay, Washington, and they are reported to be doing well, possibly ...

Pacific oysters need water temperatures above 20 degrees for some time to become sexually mature, and it is only in the 2000s ...

Regulations, refrigeration, and the rise of industrial-scale oyster farming now make it possible to eat ... In 2016, 50 percent of all Pacific oysters farmed on the West Coast of the United ...

Thanks to the filtering capacity of its shell and its ability to adapt to extreme temperatures, the Pacific oyster ... of an adult oyster. “You see a lot of them that size now, which means ...

Now, climate change ... another problem for oysters. An early warning sign that oysters could be decimated by ocean acidification came more than a decade ago, in the Pacific Northwest.

A typical bucket might contain four living Pacific oysters, nine dead ... warming temperatures are clearly visible in the here-and-now of local monitoring data. The Limfjorden is made up of ...