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, ...

Boston Harbor's shellfish areas to be reclassified, allowing direct human consumption for the first time in 100 years.

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 ...

Dave Bonney was perplexed last week when he learned the state would let him dig shellfish near Barrington Town Beach, but also recommended against swimming at the beach, saying it was unhealthy due to ...

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 ...

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 ...