Alarmingly low prices are pushing the US state of Maine’s famed lobster industry to the brink of collapse. The cause? The menacing double-whammy of climate change and…Canadians. The first might sound familiar. Last year, shockingly warm seas caused a…
Fisheries/Aquaculture
Global Warming, Development Lure Jellyfish to Barnegat Bay
The warm waters of the bay, enriched with nitrogen from environmental runoff, make Barnegat Bay inviting for jellyfish, so much so that in some areas, the water looks almost like jelly on the surface. Read what Mike Kennish of Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences has observed in the bay.
Veterans Memorial students get hands-on lesson on oysters
Seventh-graders from Veterans Memorial School in Vineland recently assisted Hurricane Sandy "victims" of a different sort – the oyster beds in the Delaware Bay, according to Emily Diaz-Chard and Betty Slusarczyk, science teachers…With the hel…
Rutgers Oysters Please Cape Customers
Take a video tour of a Massachusetts oyster farm that is growing Rutgers-bred oysters developed at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, a field station of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.
RCE Agent Gef Flimlin Judges New Jersey’s Top Seafood Chef Competition
Marine agent Gef Flimlin of Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Monmouth County was a member of a select panel of judges at the 2013 Jersey Seafood Challenge, where chefs vying for the state title to compete in a national competition create delectable dishes using Jersey Seafood. The competition was held on June 19 at Drumthwacket, the […]
Cape May Oyster Flats
On a tour hosted by Fair Food, the NJ Department of Agriculture and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, a group of Philadelphia and New Jersey’s seafood chefs and buyers were given a lesson on "conception to consumption" – the three year proce…
IMCS Student Research Reveals Protein Involved in Production of Coral Skeletons
By identifying various proteins from corals that could be involved in forming their external skeletons and searching for genes that could potentially assist with production of the skeletal mineral calcium carbonate, Tali Mass, postdoctoral researcher at SEBS and colleagues in Paul Falkowski’s laboratory, develop an understanding of how coral build their skeleton. Read more about […]
Fish stocks ‘can recover,’ marine expert says at URI lecture
A growing online database of worldwide fisheries research is helping scientists better understand the relationship between managing fishing pressures and restoring depleted fish stocks, a Rutgers University professor said at a lecture Tuesday at the Un…
Rutgers findings may predict the future of coral reefs in a changing world
Rutgers scientists have described for the first time the biological process of how corals create their skeletons – destined to become limestones – which form massive and ecologically vital coral reefs in the world’s oceans. In a publication in Current …
Bonnie McCay Receives American Fisheries Society’s 2013 Award of Excellence
Bonnie McCay, professor and graduate certificate director in the Department of Human Ecology, has been selected by the American Fisheries Society (AFS) for its 2013 Award of Excellence. One of AFS’s most prestigious awards, the excellence award is presented for “original and outstanding contributions to fisheries and aquatic biology.” McCay was recognized for her scientific […]
