Clams stick in the mud while mussels attach to rocks. While clams and squid are like cousins, clams and mussels are more like siblings. They may both belong to the Mollusca phylum and the Bivalvia ...

This is part one of writer Riki Altman’s visit to Atlantic Canada. Unlike her trip to Bangkok, this excursion did not involve ping pong balls, broccoli pies, nor drinks with bosoms. I recently ...

Tom Douglas and Thierry Rautureau say that spring is the perfect time of the year to get great shellfish. But what should you do with all those delicious oysters, clams, and mussels? Douglas ...

The state has a new focus on how climate change is affecting clams, oysters, mussels, seaweed, marine worms, periwinkles and whelks. Meredith White, who was the director of research and development ...

Nori seaweed is a sea vegetable that is a good source of magnesium, potassium, vitamin A, riboflavin, folate and vitamin C. (Bob Fila/Chicago Tribune/MCT) MCT When I signed up for a webinar on blue ...

Scientists have drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, scallops and their relatives, that humans are known to harvest and identified the traits that make ...

Even among people who identify as vegan, there can be a spectrum of what they will or will not do. Many vegans don't consume or use anything derived from any animal under any circumstances, but others ...

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The Washington Department of Health issued a biotoxin notice Tuesday closing all recreational bivalve harvesting along the Washington coast. An outbreak of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) sickened ...

On Wednesday, Wan Phen “Penny” Mufuka hurried around in her new dining room. Above, clusters of greenery hung from the rafters. A marble statue stood in one corner, a rotating glass sculpture spun in ...

For two years now, scientists, shellfish managers, and tribes have been working to understand how the heat dome that settled over the Pacific Northwest in the summer of 2021 affected the places where ...