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 ...

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, ...

LONG BEACH – A Southern California entrepreneur already has a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provision permit to harvest a million pounds of mussels and oysters from an underwater shellfish farm nearly ...

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.

Shellfish farmers face numerous challenges including diseases, pollution, and climate change impacts. North Carolina's oyster industry is recovering but still faces threats from development and ...

SEQUIM — Taylor Shellfish Farms has started the permitting process to establish a 30-acre geoduck farm in Dungeness Bay. The proposed geoduck farm would be the first shellfish farm operated by the ...

Shellfish farms in the state and the agencies that issue them operating permits are scrambling to complete farm-by-farm paperwork following litigation over whether a former permitting system ensured ...

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 ...

QUILCENE, Wash — Rising acid levels in Puget Sound due to climate change are threatening the Northwest's shellfish population, but one shellfish farmer in Washington state is working to change that.