PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — At The Tides restaurant in Safety Harbor, customers often open wide for oysters: “Yeah, they’re just tasty!” said Luceli Castanon, sitting at a corner table with two friends.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation had volunteers from the Back Country Hunters and Anglers Armed Forces Initiative out to their Shady Side site to clean and load oyster shells into cages to be used to ...

When we go out to eat and have oysters, we see the shells just get tossed away. But, the Galveston Bay Foundation in Texas is collecting those leftover shells to increase the number of oyster beds, ...