Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries AnnouncesPreliminary Closure on commercial harvest of oysters
The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has preliminarily closed Katama Bay in Edgartown, MA to the commercial harvest of oysters.The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has confirmed three additional cases of Vibrio parahaeomlyticus…
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Recent Changes in Shellfish Closure Areas
The Division of Marine Fisheries has determined that bivalve shellfish from Salt Pond in the Town of Eastham no longer contains biotoxins from phytoplankton in excess of established standards. Therefore, they have rescinded the DSP closure for…
2016 Northeast Region Ocean Acidification RFP
Northeast Sea Grant College Consortium Call for Preliminary Regional Research Proposals on theImpacts of Ocean Acidification on Key Coastal Marine Resource Species in the NortheastThe Northeast Sea Grant Consortium (consisting of the Sea Grant…
MIT Sea Grant led team advances to next phase of the Wave Energy Prize Contest
Team IOwec, led by MIT Sea Grant's Assistant Director of Research Dr. Stefano Brizzolara, will advance to the next level in the highly competitive Wave Energy Prize Contest put on by the U. S. Department of Energy.The team designed an Inertial…
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Recent Changes in Shellfish Closure Areas
As of sunrise on Wednesday July 15, 2015, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries is closing Salt Pond in the town of Eastham, MA to all shellfishing due to a phytoplankton bloom of Dinophsis sp. which is known to produce okadiaic acid the…
Gulf of Maine Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook now available
Gulf of Maine Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook now available
Eastern Region Spring Quarterly now available
NOAA's Eastern Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook is available now.
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Recent Changes in Shellfish Closure Areas
Per the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, as of sunrise on Thursday June 11, 2015 they are lifting the PSP closure in the Nauset system, specifically growing areas OC:2 through OC:6,for all shellfish species except moon snails. If…
Chelsea, MA Has New Climate Adaptation Guidance
The city of Chelsea, Massachusetts¡ Planning Board has new climate change adaptation guidance thanks to a group of students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and MIT Sea Grant. MIT Sea Grant sponsored and mentored the WPI students…
Finding the local perspective on ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is not just a buzzword for the men and women who make their living harvesting shellfish off the coast of New England. The pH of coastal water directly affects the health of shellfish and that has a real and immediate impact…
