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 ...

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 ...

The fifth-generation, family-led company is also the first shellfish farm on the US East Coast to be Best Aquaculture Practices-certified ...

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 ...

Dalhousie University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. University of Stirling provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Nova Scotia is Canada’s top seafood exporter — ...

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 ...

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 ...