NEW BEDFORD — An additional 11,310 acres of New Bedford Harbor has been closed to shellfishing by the Department of Fish & Game’sDivision of Marine Fisheries to safeguard public health. Previously, ...

Editor's note: This is the fifth in a ten-part series on shellfishing, both recreational and professional. In the next article we will explore commercial shellfishing. WESTPORT -- They trudge out of ...

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On a sandbar just off the coast of Barnstable one recent windy morning, Corey Hendricks picked up a metal mesh bag. It’s one of 125 large bags laid out, all full of young oysters. “Once they get big ...

WARWICK — In yet another sign that the waters in and around Narragansett Bay are cleaner than they have been in generations, state regulators are opening up an area in the lower Providence River to ...

WARREN, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced Thursday that roughly 515 acres of Mount Hope Bay will once again be “conditionally approved” for ...

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (WPRI) — Around 700 acres of shellfishing grounds off Prudence Island will be closed from July 26 until sunrise on Aug. 2. A map of the shellfishing grounds that will temporarily be ...

Beneath the rolling waters surrounding the Thimble Islands lie 900 acres of shellfish beds that state officials want to use to expand Connecticut’s ancient oyster and clam industry. Jonathan Waters ...

A pilot shellfish project planned for an area near Bassing Beach has been temporarily stalled as the town looks for another location to launch the project. “The town is still planning to pursue a ...

Lawmakers are sounding an alarm that rapidly acidifying ocean waters around Massachusetts are threatening to decimate the scallop, clam, lobster and mollusk populations that support thousands of ...