Summertime is seafood time, and oysters shout yum to so many people. Everyone is looking for “buck a shuck” and enjoying oysters on the half shell. So, what is an oyster? Around here, the American ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the world's oyster reefs are gone. Many fisheries are collapsing, and those in ...