fisheries

Local shellfish growers say the industry will suffer if the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station dumps radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay — in large part because of public perception.

How much anesthesia does it take to put a fish under before surgery?It’s not a question most veterinarians have to answer, but it’s what Lisa Abbo is trying to figure out at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole as she looks down at a striped bass on a steel operating table.

A second round of federal CARES Act funding is now available to the state’s fishing industry. The $23 million is meant to partially offset losses caused by the pandemic.

Farmers are finally getting calls from people looking to order, instead of the other way around, when they were trying to find a market for their products at the height of COVID-19, said Josh Reitsma, a fisheries and aquaculture specialist on Cape Cod.

The lobster industry could be getting a new sound. On a cold January morning, a lobster trap sitting on a table at a manufacturing facility in Wareham is…

Local oyster growers are getting a boost after months of restaurant closures have “torpedoed” the industry, according to one grower. The Nature…

Dozens of species of fish and shellfish are caught in New England’s waters. But only a handful show up in most seafood retailers. You can probably list…

The buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is warming the oceans, and the waters off New England’s coast are seeing some of the most dramatic…

The commercial bay scallop season opened on Nantucket at the beginning of November and will run through the end of March, but for bay scallopers, this…

As executive chef at Fisherman’s View Restaurant, Scott Robertson is a pioneer in the growing field of Jonah crab cuisine. It’s central to the…