Oysters do a lot for the Texas Coast – filter water, provide storm protection, sequester carbon and make for good eating, but the reefs are continuously disappearing. “We’ve got to continue to put ...

On Dec. 5, the UN recognized the restoration of Australia's shellfish reefs as a World Restoration Flagship, acknowledged for its Indigenous and local leadership together with The Nature Conservancy ...

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 ...

If the educated-yet-grand vision of the mariculture industry generating $200 million in business for Alaska within 20 years proves accurate, it will be the Pacific oyster that kicked it off. That’s ...

China's tidal flats feed people and mollusk-eating migrating shorebirds such as red knots, great knots and Eurasian oystercatchers. Under good management, these flats used for aquaculture markedly ...

Dominic McAfee receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Christine Crawford receives funding from The Nature Conservancy for short-term contracts. Ian McLeod received funding from the ...

Jeff Hetrick is mariculture director at the Alutiiq Pride Marine Institute — one of Alaska’s existing mariculture facilities, in Seward. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) A coalition of Alaska organizations and ...

The first thing to know about the mariculture industry in Alaska is how much money and effort are going into making it a major economic driver for years to come. The second thing is that, aside from ...

“That’s not a winning strategy.” Haa Aani, the Sealaska Corp. subsidiary that’s actively involved in promoting shellfish mariculture in order to boost rural economic development in Southeast Alaska, ...