Researchers at Morgan State University’s Patuxent Environmental and Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL) were awarded more than $600,000 in funding through two grants from the Maryland Sea Grant (MDSG) ...

If you live near the coasts, you may occasionally enjoy a good clam bake. Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest were much the same, with clams forming an important part of ...

An Aquaculture Work Group has been formed to develop ways to promote sustainable growth of Virginia’s clam and oyster aquaculture industries. At the group’s first meeting, Natural Resources Secretary ...

Researchers have developed a method to estimate the value of oyster and clam aquaculture to nitrogen reduction in a coastal community. Nitrogen is a nutrient that comes from many different sources, ...

Prices and markets for Virginia shellfish products remain strong as the state’s aquaculture market continues to grow. The farm gate value for the state’s shellfish aquaculture was $53.3 million in ...

GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. — Virginia’s shellfish aquaculture industry has grown significantly over the past five years, according to the 2024 Virginia Aquaculture Outlook Report from William & Mary’s ...

CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - North Carolina is quickly becoming a big name in shellfish growing and aquaculture, but experts say in an effort to expand the trade and meet the goal of being a $100 ...

Puget Sound shellfish growers are looking — with questions — to the North Olympic Peninsula to raise the world’s biggest burrowing clam. And state lawmakers are awaiting a state Department of Natural ...

Virginia shellfish farmers sold $56.6 million in clams and oysters in 2016, with hard clam sales of $38.1 million and $18.5 million in oyster sales. Hard-clam production once again leads the nation ...

Nova Scotia is Canada's top seafood exporter—but in a province known for its seafood, shellfish production lags behind other maritime provinces. In 2022, Prince Edward Island produced over 21.3 ...

Virginia’s shellfish growers sold an estimated 31 million single oysters and 214.4 million clams in 2013 for a farm-gate value of $45.1 million, an all-time high. That's according to a survey of ...

Nine shellfish aquaculture producers deployed about 435,000 baby oysters across two restoration reef sites in the Barnegat and Great Bay region in November as part of an ongoing conservation ...