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 […]
Fisheries/Aquaculture
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…
Fish evolution takes place in decades – not millions of years
Malin Pinsky – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
Cod Can Rebound From Overfishing If Properly Managed
Malin Pinsky – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
