Chuck Westfall doesn’t golf. So when he retired, what else was there to do but start farming oysters? The Wantagh resident leases seven acres from the Town of Islip’s Bay Bottom Licensing Program in ...

MASHPEE – As the tide rolled out from Gooseberry Island to Punkhorn Point in Popponesset Bay, David Pocknett Jr., and other members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's Natural Resources Department, ...

Plans to bring shellfish farming to Scituate continue to move forward. At its Jan. 7 meeting, the board of selectmen directed the Shellfish Advisory Committee to draft an application for shellfish ...

Lately, Taylor Shellfish has been in the news. You may have read about our company's boundary issue in Totten Inlet, or about our permit disagreement with Pierce County, or even heard some of the ...

OLYMPIA — After six years of operation, the Henderson Inlet Community Shellfish Farm reached a milestone recently. Operators of the nonprofit farm offered about 50 dozen oysters for sale on a January ...

A plan to farm scallops and oysters on the Niantic River met strong opposition from residents at a community meeting for the Waterford East Lyme Shellfish Commission Thursday. The plan would give the ...

SEQUIM — Taylor Shellfish Farms has started the permitting process to establish a 30-acre geoduck farm in Dungeness Bay. The proposed geoduck farm would be the first shellfish farm operated by the ...

Taylor Shellfish Company has reached a settlement with nearby homeowners and environmental advocates that will allow a large proposed Pierce County geoduck farm to move forward, subject to several ...

There’s a growing threat driving the county’s economy toward utter catastrophe. The county’s largest base of employment is on the verge of collapse, putting at risk thousands of family-wage jobs.

Margo Reveil and her husband have owned and operated Jakolof Oyster Co. in Homer’s Kachemak Bay for seven years. “It’s primarily oysters,” she said. “We do a little bit of mussels and scallops, but ...

Following months of negotiations, the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a permit to allow Coast Seafoods Company to continue its shellfish farming operations in ...