Groton — When former science teacher Mike Gilman got started as an oyster farmer, Tessa Getchis, senior extension educator at Connecticut Sea Grant, mentored him. And for the past three years, the ...

Rutgers researchers have made a discovery that could change the future of seafood farming in New Jersey. A study led by marine scientist Daphne Munroe has shown that Atlantic surfclams can be ...

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 ...

The Taylor family's passion for shellfish seems to have been born 136 years ago in Washington's cold tides. Today it runs the largest shellfish farming company in the U.S.

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This week on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley: More than half of all lobsters in the country come from Maine. But rising costs are driving Maine’s fishermen to transition from catching lobsters to ...

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 ...

Turning to oysters, some 27.3 million shells were cultivated in 2024 (2,700 tonnes), mainly (94%) the Zeeland Creuse (Pacific oyster, Magallana gigas), according to provisional figures from Statistics ...