National Fisherman

Oysters

With a $49 million grant, the Southeast Conference hopes to help Alaska’s handful of mariculture companies become a $200 million industry. Alaska growers are partnering with Canadian company Cascadia Seaweed to tap the agriculture biostimulant market. Cascadia Seaweed photo.

Alaska mariculture gets a big kickstart

Paul Molyneaux

Workers using water cannons blow empty shells onto an oyster reef restoration site on New Jersey's Mullica River. NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife photo.

New Jersey, Sysco to expand oyster shell recycling

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The Heron, built by Fogg’s Boatworks. Photo courtesy of Patrick Fogg

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Electric boats are making waves

Michael Crowley

The Connecticut schooner Suzanna has recently been fiberglassed at Cockrell's Marine Railway in Heathsville, Va. Cockrell's Marine Railway photo.

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Suzanna gets a new shine

Larry Chowning

Eric Oransky and Willie Leathers, founding partners of Maine Ocean Farms, an oyster operation in Casco Bay. Jerry Fraser photo.

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Electric workboats come to aquaculture

Jerry Fraser

Oysters to be used for restoration are grown at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory in Oxford, Md. Maryland Department of Natural Resources photo.

Maryland oysters a restoration success

Venture Global's planned CP2 plant in Cameron Parish, La., would be a 28 million tons/year LNG terminal that could become the largest such U.S. facility. Venture Global image.

Fishermen, environmental activists challenge CP2 project

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This 1982 aluminum 42-footer was one of the first aluminum deadrise boats built on Chesapeake Bay in Deltaville, Va by Delta Marine. It is still working in Virginia's crab pot fishery today. Larry Chowning photo.

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Maryland’s aluminum deadrise pioneers

Larry Chowning

A recent round of oyster license buybacks are helping Texas to reduce pressure on stocks and oyster reefs, state wildlife officials say. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi photo.

Texas buyback reduces oyster licenses 21 percent

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Farmed oysters with PONV1. University of British Columbia photo by Amy Chan.

Newly found virus linked to large-scale oyster die-offs

Margaret Bauman

A pair of Mississippi oystermen on a dredge boat separate oysters and load them into old Tim Horton’s coffee sacks. Bill 2648 now in the Mississippi Legislature would privatize 80 percent of the state’s oyster reefs. Richard Bosarge photo.

Privatization threatens Mississippi oyster harvesters

Paul Molyneaux