Laura Steeves, postdoctoral researcher at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, collaborates with NOAA Fisheries to understand how a species important to New Jersey will respond to changing ocean conditions. “The Atlantic surfclam is a shellfish species recognized for their large shells that wash up on beaches along the east coast of the United States. I’ve been […]
Fisheries/Aquaculture
Rutgers University Scientists in Micronesia to Advance Food Security Initiatives
Rutgers University scientists James Simon, Distinguished Professor, Department of Plant Biology, and Ramu Govindasamy, professor and chair, Department of Agricultural and Food Resource Economics, and Dena Seidel, science communication researcher, paid a courtesy call on Governor Stevenson A. Joseph, Pohnpei State, Micronesia. The Rutgers delegation was joined on the visit by Micronesian officials Hubert Yamada, […]
Rutgers Shellfish Researcher Investigates the Link between Horseshoe Crabs and Oyster Farming in the Delaware Bay
Marine ecologist Daphne Munroe, associate professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has a deep respect for New Jersey’s Delaware Bay and its unique ecosystem that supports an abundance of life. Munroe, a shellfish researcher working out of the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory in Port […]
A Sticking Point – How oyster shell scarcity puts the aquaculture industry between a rock and a hard place
Dave Bushek – Haskin Shellfish Research Lab
The Baby Oyster Bottleneck
Lucia De Souza Lima Safi – Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory
Oyster Recycling Programs are Coming Out of Their Shell
By Doug Zemeckis, Rutgers Cooperative Extension Oysters are found in New Jersey’s bays and rivers throughout much of the state. There are several different species of oysters around the world, but the species that we have here in New Jersey is the Eastern (or American) oyster (Crassostrea virginica). Our wild oyster populations are now a […]
Oyster Recycling Programs are Coming Out of Their Shell
Douglas Zemeckis – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers-led Project Successfully Conducts Testing of Shellfish Reef Structure
David Bushek – Haskin Shellfish Research Station
Rutgers-Led Study Shows Overfishing Linked to Rapid Evolution of Codfish
Malin Pinsky; Brendan Reid – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
Study: Overfishing caused cod to evolve rapidly
Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a report by scientists offers the first genomic evidence that Atlantic cod evolved new traits over only decades during a period of overfishing-evolutionary changes…
