Each day Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves to harvest oysters for sale. In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, oyster farming has been a key source of livelihood dominated for ages by women.

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a family tradition ...

The mangrove swamp near Joal-Fadiouth, a fishing village in southern Senegal, teems with oysters. But hunting for shellfish treasure among gnarly tree roots in brackish water is a lot of work.

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, women are making efforts to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves. Hundreds of women in the West African nation were ...

Everglades Oysters co-founder Fabio Galarce shucks an oyster harvested from his farm off Panther Key, near Cape Romano, in the Ten Thousand Islands on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, in Florida. Photo by ...

Josh Wilkie and Fabio Galarce leaned over the side of their boat and hauled up a basket full of oysters, each just an inch or two in size. Wilkie grabbed his shucking knife, popped one open and ...

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, women are making efforts to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves. Hundreds of women in the West African nation were ...