NCCOS and partners areusing computer modeling to determine the carrying capacity for shellfish aquaculture - and the related potential fornutrient removal - in South Puget Sound. The team's methodologies and ...

In an effort to design a water quality monitoring program for the Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative (SEFCRI) region, Florida's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) met with coastal county representatives ...

NCCOS joined a recently approved project 'AquaSpace - Ecosystem Approach to making Space for Sustainable Aquaculture,' as part of the European Commission research topic 'Optimizing space availability for European Aquaculture.' ...

Excessive nutrient input into estuarine and coastal environments, also known as eutrophication, can lead to algal blooms, oxygen depletion, fish kills, and a general loss of key habitats. New research ...

Off-bottom oyster aquaculture (Crassostrea virginica) is currently being investigated for possible effects on nutrient processes of surrounding sediments by a Virginia Sea Grant Research Fellow, Abby Lunstrum, under the guidance ...

Theinnovative "Maryland Grows Oysters" program, designed to use oyster restoration for improvement of water quality in Chesapeake Bay, was featured in aNational Geographic video released on October 9. The project ...

Earlier this month, NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and other partners joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington, DC for a workshop to ...

Researchers are exploring the role oyster aquaculture may beplaying in improvingwater quality in the Chesapeake Bay. On July 16, 17, and 23, 2014, the researchers made visits to three Chesapeake ...

A NOAA-led, multidisciplinary team is refining a tool used by farmers and regulators to choose locations of shellfish aquaculture farms in Long Island Sound. The updated tool will merge Farm ...

On Nov. 18, staff from NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and Northeast Fisheries Laboratory met with outside partners to continue investigating the potential importance of shellfish aquaculture in ...