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This week on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley: More than half of all lobsters in the country come from Maine. But rising costs are driving Maine’s fishermen to transition from catching lobsters to ...

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

Framing it as a saltwater flavor of technology hubs, officials broke ground this week on the planned Shellfish Mariculture ...

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 ...

Over the past 50 years, global aquaculture, including fish, mussel and seaweed farms, has grown dramatically. Almost half of the world's wild-caught fish is used to produce fishmeal and oils that feed ...

Megan Rector received funding from the Ocean Frontier Institute and Pictou County Partnership Ramón Filgueira received funding from the Ocean Frontier Institute and Pictou County Partnership Nova ...

My wife and I spent $320 on a hatchery and boat tour at Island Creek Oysters in Massachusetts. I loved seeing the surrounding bay and shellfish-processing stations from the boat. Overall, I think the ...