No one comes here to eat a chicken sandwich
Ocean acidification puts Lobsters and Crabs at risk.
Category: Fisheries & Aquatic Life
Farming to Improve Water Quality
Written for the Long Island Sound Study’s Fall 2014 Update, this pair of articles provides great examples of how farming–both on land and at sea–can help reduce hypoxia and improve the Sound’s water quality.
2014 Hypoxia Review for Long Island Sound
While this summer is an indication of good news, we must continue the enormous challenge of pulling excess nitrogen out of the system.
Milford Aquaculture Lab tests probiotics to protect oysters
Part two of an intermittent series on NOAA Fisheries’ Milford Laboratory, a federal facility that has been a leader in aquaculture research for over 90 years.
New England’s Fisheries: Past, present, and future of food production
Part one of our new occasional series on sustainability in our food production system focusing on the past, present, and future of New England’s fisheries.
Seaweed Blooms: A Growing Problem
Seaweed wreaks havoc in many coastal communities around world. Is it a growing threat in Long Island Sound?
You can help put independent observers on all commercial herring boats
Please ask federal fishery managers to protect river herring and shad by requiring independent observers on every industrial fishing trawl trip.
Milford’s NOAA Laboratory is an Aquaculture Leader
Although it has been the site of pioneering work in aquaculture for over 90 years, few Connecticut residents are aware of the lab’s contribution to science, the local and national economy, or even of its existence. The first in a series on NOAA’s Milford Laboratory. Since our earliest colonial days, New England’s fisherman have been harvesting shellfish commercially […]