SEATTLE – After decades of bitter dispute, Puget Sound tribes and commercial shellfish growers are scheduled to sign a settlement today that ends the fight over shellfish harvesting from private land.

Dalhousie University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. University of Stirling provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Nova Scotia is Canada’s top seafood exporter — ...

There’s a growing threat driving the county’s economy toward utter catastrophe. The county’s largest base of employment is on the verge of collapse, putting at risk thousands of family-wage jobs.

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 ...

Alaska's mariculture industry has passed some milestones and is getting set to head into the weeds. Aquatic farming was approved by Alaska lawmakers in 1988 and topped $1 million in shellfish sales ...

A new Virginia law designating 1,000 acres off the shores of the Northern Neck, the Middle Peninsula and Tangier Island for commercial shellfish farming is being challenged by members of the oyster ...

SEATTLE — A national food group is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, alleging it is allowing commercial shellfish aquaculture to expand in Washington state without adequate environmental ...

Following months of negotiations, the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a permit to allow Coast Seafoods Company to continue its shellfish farming operations in ...

Lately, Taylor Shellfish has been in the news. You may have read about our company's boundary issue in Totten Inlet, or about our permit disagreement with Pierce County, or even heard some of the ...

A plan to farm scallops and oysters on the Niantic River met strong opposition from residents at a community meeting for the Waterford East Lyme Shellfish Commission Thursday. The plan would give the ...

TOTTEN INLET, Thurston County — On a crisp winter afternoon, as a slight ripple crosses narrow South Puget Sound, it’s hard to imagine this place as a battleground. But a fight has simmered for 15 ...