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.
Postdoctoral researcher Laura Steeves collaborates with NOAA Fisheries to understand how a species important to New Jersey will respond to changing ocean conditions.
With the surfclam industry facing an uncertain future amid all these threats, shellfish researchers at Rutgers and elsewhere are working to find solutions that may help both the clams and the fishers adapt.
