Oyster growers in Washington's Willapa Bay are alarmed by an invasion of potentially destructive European green crabs. Some are asking for an... Northwest shellfish growers call for aggressive action ...

A group of U.S. lawmakers has asked the federal government to provide financial support to the nation’s struggling shellfish ...

After an outcry from concerned citizens, shellfish growers and the Department of Ecology have agreed to cancel a recently issued pesticide spraying permit. The Washington State Department of Ecology ...

The Washington Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday reached settlements with two shellfish companies based in Olympia and Shelton for growing oysters, clams and geoducks on state-owned ...

President Obama’s plan, announced this week, to protect U.S. oceans and coastal areas, could provide a big boost to farming in Washington. Seafood farming, that is. The President, on Tuesday, declared ...

One hundred and fifty years ago, the Indian tribes of Washington state signed treaties that were supposed to guarantee, forever, their right to collect shellfish from the beaches of Puget Sound. Not ...

The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission is considering new rules that could streamline the state’s growing shellfish lease and aquaculture program, changes that one prominent aquaculture ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WCIV) — Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced new legislation Friday to study the causes of declining native shellfish populations along the United ...

Oyster Bay planted 50,000 adult oysters in town waters this week as part of a national nonprofit program that buys shellfish from local growers and donates them to municipalities to help create reefs ...

After Hurricane Florence, bags of dead oysters hung in the trees near Jimmy Morris’ oyster farm and hatchery. Florence ransacked his Morris Family Shellfish Farms in Sealevel, north of Beaufort and ...