The team recently hosted its third annual Fish Tagging Research and Education Program (FiTREP) kickoff meeting in preparation for the 2026 summer flounder season!
Big congratulations to our graduate students and undergraduate interns who were awarded outstanding presentation awards at the MidAtlantic Chapter meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Dewey Beach, DE November 19-21, 2025. Best student talk awards went to Samantha Alaimo (3rd place) and Danielle Dyson (1st place, and best student poster awards went to former RIOS inters Fiona Farrell (runner up) and Maya Lopez (1st place). In total, Rutgers graduate and undergraduate students made 9 oral presentations and 6 poster presentations at this day-and-a-half long meeting. Well done students!!
The Rutgers Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory in New Jersey and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science Shellfish Pathology Laboratory established the Regional Shellfish Seed Biosecurity Program to develop safe and secure mechanisms to produce and transfer shellfish seed for aquaculture.
The Rutgers-designed, hybrid reef-mimicking experiment could provide protection from storms and coastal flooding.
Scientists are using an ecosystem approach to aquaculture, growing multiple seafood products together in a sustainable system.
Rutgers University faculty have helped launch the current wave of oyster farms in New Jersey.
New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium and Rutgers University have partnered up with numerous shellfish farms throughout the Jersey Shore for the Apprenticeship In Shellfish Aquaculture Program (ASAP).
The Atlantic surf clam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a big way, reversing a die-off that started more than two decades ago.
