Selene Yeager

Shellfish like oysters are among the best sources of the mineral zinc, which protects the eyes against the damaging effects of sunlight, McDonald notes. In high doses, zinc also appears to slow the progression of macular degeneration once you have early stages of the disease.

Carmen Russo

NEW YORK CITY — The Sherman Creek shoreline in upper Manhattan, which has seen rapid erosion in recent years, remains an important flood buffer for residents of the Dyckman Houses, a collection of seven 14-story buildings run by the New York City Housing Authority that is home to more than 2,000 people. This low-lying part of the Inwood neighborhood is already prone to flooding, and suffered significant damage when Sherman Creek overflowed at high tide during Hurricane Sandy.

Newsday

Chuck Westfall doesn’t golf. So when he retired, what else was there to do but start farming oysters?‍The Wantagh resident leases seven acres from the Town of Islip’s Bay Bottom Licensing Program in the Great South Bay. That number will eventually rise to 17, with the recent launch of the program’s third phase that has added approximately 1,300 acres off the coast of Heckscher State Park in East Islip to the program’s existing 125.

Jon Diat

The pandemic has seriously impacted many who fish or work on the water for a living. With restaurants and the food service industry taking a big hit, the demand for various seafood products, including oysters, has been severely curtailed. As a result, many of the oysters raised by oyster farmers have grown to a size that is considered too large for sale and general consumption.

Lee Southwick

A traditional seafood favorite is being grown in an untraditional way in Louisiana

Rob Hutchins

Because of Them We Can

John Wallace

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Jenny Noble