For the first time in 100 years, commercial and recreational shellfishers will be allowed to direct harvest shellfish in Boston Harbor, according to the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

More than five dozen people have been sickened after eating shellfish that was contaminated with a life-threatening bacteria. The CDC and FDA are working to investigate a salmonella outbreak tied to ...

Budd Inlet has been closed to recreational shellfish harvesting due to unsafe biotoxin levels. High levels of the biotoxin that produces diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP) were recently detected in ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A portion of the Broad Bay in Virginia Beach previously closed to shellfish harvesting due to a sewage release will reopen Thursday. The closure began Nov. 10. The untreated ...

BRICK -- New Jersey officials suspended shellfish harvesting on Nov. 17 in an area of Barnegat Bay off Brick due to poor water quality. On Monday, state Department of Environmental Protection ...

In Alaska, a state brimming with iconic wildlife — from grizzly bears to king salmon, humpback whales to harbor seals — the charismatic, densely coated sea otter stands out as perhaps the state’s most ...

CHARLESTON — Bushels of steamed oysters will be back on tables as South Carolina’s shellfish harvesting season begins. The start of October marked the opening of the recreational and commercial ...

Groton — When former science teacher Mike Gilman got started as an oyster farmer, Tessa Getchis, senior extension educator at Connecticut Sea Grant, mentored him. And for the past three years, the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More adults vs. children/adolescents had shellfish-induced anaphylaxis; the opposite was found for fish-induced ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The chance to start harvesting your own oysters and clams in the Lowcountry is coming on Oct. 1. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources says the recreational harvest of ...

The California Department of Public Health sent out a warning advising community members to avoid eating sport-harvested bivalve shellfish from San Luis Obispo County due to dangerously high levels of ...

People should avoid eating sport-caught mussels, oysters, clams and scallops in San Luis Obispo County until further notice, the California Department of Public Health warned Friday afternoon. Bivalve ...