There are so many incredible local foods to love when visiting New Orleans, and fried oysters are definitely at the top of the list. But if you can’t visit the iconic Casamento’s for their fried oysters, or the High Hat Cafe for the best fried oyster po’boy you will ever taste, it is still possible…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale has died of a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters. A Pensacola man died the same way this month. Both cases involved oysters from Louisiana. Gary Oreal, who manages the Rustic Inn, told the South Florida SunSentinel that the man who died had worked years ago at…

If you’re craving oysters but haven’t found the time to visit your favorite seafood joint lately, bring the seafood to you instead. This recipe for oysters Rockerfeller is an old school recipe that deserves a real comeback. The hors d’oeuvre’s creamy texture and bread crumb topping is a great way to turn dinner at home into a restaurant experience. And…

Oyster farmers in New South Wales (NSW) have rescued three million baby oysters—each the size of a grain of sand—from catastrophic floods that have inundated northern NSW and Queensland since January. The farmers on the Macleay River, a major river in NSW, received the oysters just days before the floods, but heavy rains acidified the…

CHULA VISTA, Calif.—The Port of San Diego has begun installation of 300 “reef balls” as part of the South Bay Native Oyster Living Shoreline Project next to the Chula Vista Wildlife Refuge, it was announced Dec. 9. The project, in partnership with the California State Coastal Conservancy and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, is the…

Port Republic, N.J.—Call it the seafood circle of life: Shells discarded by diners are being collected, cleaned, and dumped into waterways around the country and the world, where they form the basis of new oyster colonies. One of the latest such projects is taking place in Atlantic City, where a casino and two other restaurants…