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 ...

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, ...

Burrowing shrimp are small marine excavators native to Washington. They make their homes deep in the sediment by digging, ...

OLYMPIA — After six years of operation, the Henderson Inlet Community Shellfish Farm reached a milestone recently. Operators of the nonprofit farm offered about 50 dozen oysters for sale on a January ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators approved this week development of the first shellfish farm in federal waters off Southern California that could produce about 2.6 million pounds of ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Maine is producing more oysters than ever due to a growing number of shellfish farms that have launched off its coast in recent years. The state’s 2021 oyster harvest was the ...