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 ...
The UK's first large scale offshore mussel farm is allowing shellfish reefs to return to parts of the seabed off England's south coast for the first time in up to 150 years, a new study has revealed.
Zebra mussels, an aquatic invader from Eurasia, continue their continental spread after arriving in North America. These tiny ...
In Massachusetts, common blue mussels may not have the star power of Wellfleet oysters or the charisma of quahogs. But like all shellfish they play an important role in marine ecosystems. Mussels are ...
KRIEGERS FLAK OFFSHORE WIND FARM – In a small boat bobbing in the waves between towering offshore wind turbines, researchers in Europe’s Baltic Sea reach into the frigid water and remove long lines ...
This January 2019 file photo shows mussels at Pemaquid Mussel Farms mussel growing and processing center in Bucksport. Credit: Nick Sambides Jr. / BDN About a decade ago, Blue Hill Bay mussel farmer ...
Imagine walking along a quiet shoreline where the tide has slowly slipped away from the land. Pools of seawater remain behind like hidden windows into ocean life. Seaweed sways in the shallows and ...
We head to American Mussel Harvesters, Inc. and Rhody Wild Gardens located in North Kingstown, RI, to discuss harvesting mussels and warming waters in Narragansett Bay; how mussels act as a filter for ...
Sustainability is an incredibly complicated topic. Yet seafood sustainability is the surprisingly rare exception in which a really complex problem can be addressed with uniquely simple options — and ...
The centre says eating contaminated shellfish can lead to serious illness, including paralytic shellfish poisoning, amnesic ...