WHIDBEY ISLAND STATION, Wash. — A team of investigators is studying what is causing transmissible cancers in shellfish on both the east and west coasts, including impacts to basket cockles, an ...
The densely-populated island of Luzon is home to over half of the Philippines' population, many of whom consume shellfish on a regular basis. An international team of scientists has just confirmed the ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to avoid shellfish from Oregon and Washington that may be potentially “contaminated with paralytic shellfish toxins.” The shellfish in ...
In a new study, scientists Stewart Edie of the Smithsonian, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to avoid shellfish from Oregon and Washington that could be “contaminated ...
The waters of the Gulf of Maine are warming faster than oceans almost anywhere on Earth. And as the level of carbon dioxide rises in the atmosphere, it's absorbed by the oceans, causing pH levels to ...
SEQUIM — Dungeness Bay and the Strait of Juan de Fuca from the Dungeness Spit east to the Discovery Bay/Jefferson County line is open again to shellfish harvesting. Sequim Bay remains closed to the ...
QUILCENE, Wash — Rising acid levels in Puget Sound due to climate change are threatening the Northwest's shellfish population, but one shellfish farmer in Washington state is working to change that.
As of 2026, more than 8,500 invasive species are established in the U.S., including plants, insects, reptiles, amphibians, ...
Researchers studying the sharp decline between 1980 and 2010 in documented landings of the four most commercially-important bivalve mollusks -- eastern oysters, northern quahogs, softshell clams and ...
Human-harvested shellfish from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History research collections. (Credit: Brittany M. Hance and James D. Tiller, Smithsonian) Photos illustrating this research ...
Mussels, barnacles, and snails are declining in the Gulf of Maine, according to a new article by biologists. Their 20-year dataset reveals that the populations' steady dwindling matches up with the ...