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 ...

NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and Northeast Fisheries Laboratory are working with outside partners to merge Farm Aquaculture Resource Management (FARM) model results with the Connecticut Aquaculture Mapping ...

On July 16, 2013, NCCOS staff met with New University, Lisban, Portugal, to discuss development of models for siting of shellfish aquaculture and restoration along the U.S. East Coast. The ...

At two recent meetings in Annapolis ( Shellfish Aquaculture Conference April 8 and Chesapeake Bay Program April 9-10, 2013), NCCOS' researchers gave presentations on work within Long Island Sound and ...

Staff from the Connecticut Congressional delegation requested a visit from NOAA researchers from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) to discuss recent seafloor mapping efforts and how they ...

NOAA Ocean Science Blog sat down with Dr. Suzanne Bricker of NOAA'sNational Centers for Coastal Ocean Science(NCCOS),Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment(CCMA), Coastal Ocean Assessments, Status, and Trends, to talk ...

As shellfish harvesting in parts of Southampton Town has been shut down by the eastward spread of the toxic 'red tide' algae bloom, East Hampton officials have watched anxiously for ...

Selected inlet-estuary areas on eastern Long Island have been placed under temporary emergency shellfish closures by the State of New York. On April 5, 2012, New York announced the earliest-ever ...

Sushi chef Bun Lai has a taste for the beach. He grew up exploring the craggy shore and rocky isles of coastal Connecticut, a passion he's carried with him into ...