To provide new high resolution data for the nearshore waters of St. Thomas, St. John, andSt Croix, USVI, NCCOS scientists partneredwith NOAA's Office of Coastal Survey, Fugro LADS Corporation, and ...

Forecasting doesn't eliminate the need for shellfish resource managers to test and monitor toxicity, but it can help them do so more effectively, says WHOI senior scientist Dennis McGillicuddy, a ...

Echoing the alarm sounded in the early 2000s about increasing numbers of lionfish off the East Coast, NOAA scientists are warning that another species - the Asian tiger shrimp - ...

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) are assuring divers and diners that locally caught lionfish are safe to eat, despite recent reports of ...

Cages containing both cysteine-treated clams and untreated 'control' clams are prepared for a return to red tide impacted Florida waters to study effectiveness of this treatment at lowering red tide ...

Dr. Nancy N. Rabalais, long-time NCCOS-sponsored scientist, has been awarded the distinguished Heinz Award for her research and leadership identifying and characterizing the dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico dead ...

Standing on the shores of Netarts Bay in Oregon on a sunny fall morning, it's hard to imagine that the fate of the oysters being raised here at the Whiskey ...

One fillet of fish a month. That's about how much seafood a Washington State resident eats, according to the assumptions used to set cleanliness standards for the state's abundant rivers, ...

The breadth of NCCOS research involving harmful algal blooms (HABs) is on display at the Sixth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U. S. in Austin Texas, November 14-17, 2011 ...

While the jumbo Asian tiger shrimp has attracted the lion's share of publicity among invasive marine species in North Carolina in recent weeks, the poisonous lionfish is rightfully growling for ...