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 ...

Excess seaweed can smother shellfish farms. But University of Washington researchers had hoped to turn that nuisance seaweed into something beneficial. Last summer, swaths of seaweed scraped from one ...

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 ...