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 ...

A group of Johnson Point residents are opposing plans for a new commercial shellfish farm on Henderson Inlet, citing environmental concerns. Taylor Shellfish requested a permit for the proposed ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska -- An investor, a fisherman and a shellfish farmer hope to stake their claim by becoming Alaska's biggest geoduck producers. Investor Jim Redfield, who is based near San Jose, Calif., ...