Human-harvested shellfish from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History research collections. (Credit: Brittany M. Hance and James D. Tiller, Smithsonian) Photos illustrating this research ...

UNION, Wash. -- Commercial and tribal shellfish harvesters are losing thousands of dollars because they can't harvest clams and oysters at the mouth of the Skokomish River on Hood Canal. The discovery ...

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Most experts agree that a balanced diet should contain two servings of fish per week. At least one of those servings should be oily fish. Oily fish are seafood like salmon, sardines, and trout. These ...

China's tidal flats feed people and mollusk-eating migrating shorebirds such as red knots, great knots and Eurasian ...

Scientists have drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, scallops and their relatives, that humans are known to harvest and identified the traits that make ...

In a new study, scientists Stewart Edie of the Smithsonian, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, ...