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Beyond Oysters: Expanding the shellfish market for alternative species

Expanding shellfish markets for alternative species Oysters on the half shell represent 94 percent of Massachusetts’s $28 million shellfish aquaculture industry. For an industry that has grown over 300 percent in value over the last ten years, some worry about the reliance on a monocrop: one bad year for oysters could be devastating to aquaculture…

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Funded Projects by Year

Funded Projects  2010 – Present 2026-2027 Collapse Jennifer Bowen of Northeastern University, and Wayne Castonguay of MA Division of Marine Fisheries Keeping Clams Clean: Tracking microbial contamination of clam flats Sarah Donelan of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Winter is Changing: Enhancing oyster overwintering practices Brian Cheng and Lisa Komoroske of University of Massachusetts Amherst Just…

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Adaptations & Climate Change

Adaptation & Climate Change This program is a collaboration between the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Woods Hole Sea Grant.   Background What types of adaptations do marine mammals have and how are they dealing with climate change? In order to survive in their particular habitat, all animals must have structures and behaviors that…

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Catching up with Knauss Fellow Shari Rohret

In June, before 2026 Knauss Fellow Shari Rohret could settle into her new job responsibilities at NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration in Silver Spring, MD, she was given the chance to spend 25 days in the Pacific, mapping islands aboard the Okeanos Explorer. As an ocean exploration policy and operations fellow, Shari chronicled the expedition,…

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