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WHOI Sea Grant has awarded $1.6 million to four new research projects targeting pressing challenges facing Massachusetts' aquaculture and fisheries industries. Photo courtesy of WHOI

$1.6M to aquaculture and fisheries research

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Recovery and cleanup efforts continue after a crude oil discharge reported near the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port on Feb. 26, 2026. Photo courtesy of USCG

Oil spill leaves fishermen waiting on cleanup, seafood safety answers

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Sparrows Point Container Terminal Project partners with Oyster Recovery Partnership to remove derelict fishing gear from Upper Chesapeake Bay. Photo courtesy of Oyster Recovery Partnership

Ghost gear sweep puts 40 watermen to work on the Chesapeake

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Oyster dredging. Photo by William Whaley/Maryland DNR photo contest.

In a hard winter, Maryland extends oyster season two weeks

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This 21' x 8' New England built skiff is used in the Chesapeake Bay oyster fishery. It is getting a new fiberglass bottom at Jennings Boatyard Inc. in Reedville, Va. Larry Chowning photo.

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New England boats as 'icebreakers' in Chesapeake oyster fishery

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Photo courtesy of North Carolina Sea Grant/The North Carolina Oyster Trail

NOAA-backed grants help expand knowledge on farmed seafood

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Portions of the areas within the red circles of the productive shellfish habitat in greater Boston Harbor (shown in yellow) now meet water quality standards to allow direct harvest of shellfish for the first time in 100 years.

Boston Harbor shellfishing poised to reopen after a century

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After a 5-year moratorium, the state of Florida plans to reopen the Apalachicola Bay oyster fishery on Jan. 1, 2026. Harvesters will be allowed to harvest one bag a day (60 pounds) from reefs in the bay that meet the ecological threshold of 400 legal-size

Return of the Apalachicola Oyster

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Authorities in Maine are investigating the suspected theft of oysters and aquaculture equipment from a site in Casco Bay. Maine Department of Marine Resources photo.

Authorities investigating oyster gear theft in Maine

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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

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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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