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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nicki Holmyard reports on the EU audit of the UK SPS, why low trophic aquaculture should be prioritised in the EU budget, and why the new UK Coastal Growth Fund has failed to impress ...

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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 ...

The US state of Maine's Department of Marine Resources (DMR) has reopened 7,500 acres of the US state's southern coast, ending a four-day closure due to a significant rainfall that raised concerns ...

The European Mollusc Producers Association (EMPA) recently held its inaugural event at the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week, emphasizing the urgent need for support in a shellfish sector ...

Editor's note: Oysters are becoming a critical component of South Carolina's defense against climate change. This is the first part of an occasional series in The Post and Courier that will track the ...