Researchers at UNC Wilmington are working to support North Carolina's growing shellfish industry. Oyster populations have declined due to unsustainable harvesting, development, and disease. Scientists ...

Quincy has always profited from the Mississippi, but never so directly as around 1900. And it all started with the lowly freshwater mussel or clam. In 1897 pearls and things made from pearl shell had ...

MYRTLE GROVE | Like a bingo ball tumbler, the metal, barrel-shaped sorter spun around, shaking up the oysters until they fell through the appropriate holes that fit their age size. The mollusks would ...