Portions of the areas within the red circles of the productive shellfish habitat in greater Boston Harbor (shown in yellow) ...

Harbor shellfishing was banned during the U.S. typhoid outbreak in 1925, though 'moderately contaminated' clams could be ...

Thanks to dramatic improvements in water quality, some towns will soon be opening up the harbor for shellfish harvesting and ...

For the first time in decades, water quality has improved enough to reclassify certain areas to allow shellfishing for human ...

The state's Division of Marine Fisheries is in the process of reclassifying parts of the outer Boston Harbor so that ...

Not all fish are created equal when it comes to their impact on the climate. In the prophetic words of Dr. Seuss: “Some are glad. And some are sad. And some are very, very bad.” A new study takes a ...

Heavier rains are triggering regulatory pauses on harvesting oysters and clams—and putting fishermen out of work.

Phyllis Clough was driving to the post office in the tiny Alaskan village of Old Harbor one summer afternoon when her lips went numb. Within minutes, her mouth was swollen and the numbness had spread ...

The light of the October full moon bounced across the surface of Washington’s Similk Bay. Stuart Thomas stood ankle-deep in the ebbing tide, flipping black mesh bags filled with oysters. He opened a ...