Instead, they point out the expenses such as boat repairs and the impact of diseases, predators or ice storms that ruin half their product. While most of the students are somewhat new to shellfish ...

Greenhouse gas emissions are heating our atmosphere and oceans, and turning seawater more acidic. One of the myriad expected ...

Researchers at UNC Wilmington are working to support North Carolina's growing shellfish industry. Oyster populations have declined due to unsustainable harvesting, development, and disease. Scientists ...

Megan Rector received funding from the Ocean Frontier Institute and Pictou County Partnership Ramón Filgueira received funding from the Ocean Frontier Institute and Pictou County Partnership Nova ...

President Obama’s plan, announced this week, to protect U.S. oceans and coastal areas, could provide a big boost to farming in Washington. Seafood farming, that is. The President, on Tuesday, declared ...

Samuel Tucker and his ten year old daughter Susannah show off their growing oyster farm, Tucker's Oysters, in Clinton on July 11, 2025. In waters just off Clinton, Connecticut, Samuel Tucker and his ...

China’s tidal flats feed people and mollusc eating migrating shorebirds like red knots, great knots and Eurasian oystercatchers. Under good management, these flats used for aquaculture markedly reduce ...