News tagged with commercial shellfish

Current level of oyster farming unlikely to have substantial impact on Drakes Estero ecosystem

A new report from the National Research Council finds a lack of strong scientific evidence that the present level of oyster farming operations by Drakes Bay Oyster Co. (DBOC) has major adverse effects on the ecosystem of ...

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Scientists sound acid alarm for plankton

The microscopic organisms on which almost all life in the oceans depends could be even more vulnerable to increasingly acidic waters than scientists realised, according to a new study.

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created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Ocean acidification linked to larval oyster failure

Researchers at Oregon State University have definitively linked an increase in ocean acidification to the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon, where larval growth had ...

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created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers report potential for a 'moderate' New England 'red tide' in 2012

New England is expected to experience a "moderate" regional "red tide" this spring and summer, report NOAA-funded scientists working in the Gulf of Maine to study the toxic algae that causes the bloom. The algae in the water ...

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created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows some Gulf dolphins severely ill

Bottlenose dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, are showing signs of severe ill health, according to NOAA marine mammal biologists and their local, state, federal and other research partners.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Animal diseases increasingly plague the oceans

When dead sea mammals started washing ashore on Canada's west coast in greater numbers, marine biologist Andrew Trites was distressed to find that domestic animal diseases were killing them.

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created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

New probiotic bacteria shows promise for use in shellfish aquaculture

The use of probiotic bacteria, isolated from naturally-occurring bacterial communities, is gaining in popularity in the aquaculture industry as the preferred, environmentally-friendly management alternative to the use of ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanoscale biological coating is a new way to stop the bleeding

MIT engineers have developed a nanoscale biological coating that can halt bleeding nearly instantaneously, an advance that could dramatically improve survival rates for soldiers injured in battle.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ocean acidification may directly harm fish: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossil fuel combustion, and with it the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2), is still growing globally. Beyond climate change, this is also causing the world’s “other ...

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Environmental troubles growing in Mid-East Gulf region due to rapid coastal development

The rapid, large scale coastal development underway in the Middle East must be better planned and managed to avoid aggravating already "severe" degradation and losses in the fragile marine ecosystems shared by eight Gulf ...

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created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Algae that turned toxic stumps scientists

For years, when Washington state health officials tested shellfish for toxins produced by microscopic algae, they zeroed in on two types of poisons.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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