Philipp Neubauer, post doctoral associate, and Olaf Jensen, assistant professor in the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences were interviewed about their recently published paper, “Global Overfishing,” at the Rutgers iTV Studio on April 17 for the BBC’s Science in Action program. The program was aired in the United Kingdom on April 18 with repeats […]
Fisheries/Aquaculture
Study shows depleted fish stocks can come back from the brink
Nature is a lot more resilient than we sometimes think. A study by Rutgers marine scientists published recently in Science shows that species of fish that have been overfished for decades can often be brought back more easily than expected once fisheri…
Canada’s cod, and many other depleted fish, unlikely to recover
Canada’s once bountiful cod stocks are not likely to bounce back, according to an international study on the dangers of overfishing. "Here we are more than 20 years after the cod was effectively depleted, and according to our analysis, the recovery…
Cape May 4-H Offers Summer Teen Leadership Institute
For teens entering grades 7 – 12, interested in marine and environmental science, and enjoy being outdoors and working with children, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cape May County and NJ Audubon’s Nature Center of Cape May are currently accepting applications for the 2013 Rutgers 4-H Summer Teen Leadership Institute. This 8-week institute will take place […]
Assumption students learn by doing oyster restoration
"It’s gooey and slimy," said Courtney Reed, 13, a seventh-grader at Assumption Regional Catholic School, as she stood beside a lab table and peered over a dissected Eastern oyster with her classmates. For the first time, the Galloway Township s…
Shellfish industry slow to recover from Sandy
Lightly crusted with barnacles, Matt Gregg’s oyster floats are barely visible as they bob in the waters of northern Barnegat Bay. Gregg snagged one, hauled it into his boat and shook out his livestock: thumb-size oysters, his life’s work these last thr…
Shell Fisheries Council sets seasons dates, talks quotas at March meeting
The New Jersey Shell Fisheries Council, Delaware Bay Section, convened for its monthly meeting on March 5, to discuss the state of oyster beds along the bay, and review the recommendations of scientists from the Rutgers Haskin Shellfish Laboratory in B…
Vanishing Marine Algae Can Be Monitored From a Boat With Your Smartphone
Two weeks ago, a group of sailors off the coast of New Zealand leaned over the side of their boat, dropped a contraption into the Pacific Ocean and watched it disappear. Using an app they’d downloaded to a smartphone, they logged a reading from the und…
Baykeeper to test oyster reef structures
The NY-NJ Baykeeper will expand its oyster restoration project with a test of several reef structures off Naval Weapons Station Earle…Staff and volunteers with the Baykeeper and the Rutgers Center for Urban Sustainability will construct a new experim…
Rutgers Paper Makes Cover of Journal of Food Science
The Journal of Food Science selected an image from a Rutgers paper on “High Pressure Processing of Clams” for the cover of the February 2013 issue. The paper was authored by Gabriel Mootian; Mukund Karwe and Donald Schaffner, professors of Food Science, and Gef Flimlin, marine agent at Rutgers Cooperative Extension. Read the full journal […]
