Surf clams off the coast of Virginia reappear -- and rebound sciencedaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencedaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Atlantic surfclam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a
The Atlantic surfclam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a
VIMS study uncovers new cause for intensification of oyster disease eurekalert.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurekalert.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The plight of New York City s oysters has by now been scrupulously recounted, starting all the way back in the 1930s, with Joseph Mitchell s reporting for The New Yorker. It s really a cautionary tale, the likes of which is becoming ever more familiar in this time of climate upheaval and wildlife stressors, about (in this case) a once-vibrant fishery that collapsed in the late 19th Century due to overharvesting and manmade pollution and ambivalence about responsible stewardship of natural resources.
Some believe the tragedy lies in the disappearance of a tasty local mollusk from our tables. But it s actually a lot more significant than mere human gustatory lacking. When this keystone species all but disappeared from the Hudson River and also dwindled in Long Island s Great South Bay, and the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, and in estuaries throughout the South, in the San Francisco Bay and elsewhere on the West Coast it took with