Oysters can carry a type of bacteria that can cause serious and sometimes deadly infections in people, yet the shellfish can carry the microbe without showing the same kind of illness. The organism is ...

While they may not look particularly scary at first glance, these crustaceans continue to cause great concern on the east ...

Temporary shellfish harvesting closures are now in effect for parts of Onslow and Pamlico counties.The North Carolina ...

For centuries, oysters have shaped life on St. Andrews Bay in Panama City Beach. They helped Indigenous people build massive ...

ACT's new fisheries policy would set a nationwide daily limit of 10 shellfish, permanently end scallop dredging in closed North Island fisheries and create a Hauraki Gulf management area.

After more than 100 days in the hospital, a Florida man has recovered from flesh-eating bacteria, which is fatal for 1 in 5 ...

Nature has had to solve this problem multiple times,” he said. “So, there is resilience to toxins all over the biological ...

Italy is fighting an invasive crab species with a weapon that sounds almost too strange to be true. The country has released ...

On June 17, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally denied a citizen petition requesting that the agency establish temporary ...

The crabs have shuttered hundreds of fisheries along Italy’s coastline over the past decade. The effort, called Octo-Blu, ...

Alabama officials are warning beachgoers to beware of bacteria that has caused over a dozen to become sick, and one to die.

A study in mice found that a protein called saxiphilin acts like a sponge against a deadly toxin produced by algal blooms.