Over the past 50 years, global aquaculture, including fish, mussel and seaweed farms, has grown dramatically. Almost half of the world's wild-caught fish is used to produce fishmeal and oils that feed ...

China's tidal flats feed people and mollusk-eating migrating shorebirds such as red knots, great knots and Eurasian oystercatchers. Under good management, these flats used for aquaculture markedly ...

MASHPEE – As the tide rolled out from Gooseberry Island to Punkhorn Point in Popponesset Bay, David Pocknett Jr., and other members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's Natural Resources Department, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 3—ROWLEY — The Great Marsh Shellfish Co. has officially started a growout farm and planted its first oyster crop in the water ...

Plans to bring shellfish farming to Scituate continue to move forward. At its Jan. 7 meeting, the board of selectmen directed the Shellfish Advisory Committee to draft an application for shellfish ...

For all his life, Alaskan fisherman Dune Lankard has looked to the sea—for food, work and purpose. “I started fishing when I was five,” says Lankard, a member of the Athabaskan Eyak community, an ...

Nova Scotia is Canada’s top seafood exporter — but in a province known for its seafood, shellfish production lags behind other maritime provinces. In 2022, Prince Edward Island produced over 21.3 ...

As pilot projects go, it couldn’t have gone much worse. The nation’s first commercial shellfish farm in federal waters was supposed to provide a national model for sustainable aquaculture. Bobbing in ...

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 ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Maine is producing more oysters than ever due to a growing number of shellfish farms that have launched off its coast in recent years. The state’s 2021 oyster harvest was the ...