The singer pulls on it, the note pushes back, and vice versa; the struggles are chronicled by the anguished note's rising and falling pitch as a helpless vowel is wrung to death. Melisma. I know it's ...

Charleston oysterman Thomas Bierce holds up two oyster shells. The first has been washed, tumbled and grated while the other has been plucked naturally from the water in a cluster. “They respond to ...

I might have been 21 or 22 when I finally was able to stomach raw oysters. I would try one a year, just to see if I could eat them. The texture, however, was just too odd for me. It took practice and ...

Two sets of global standards – one for pangasius farming and the other for bivalve farming – were finalized today by the Aquaculture Dialogues. They were developed over the past three years by 1,000 ...

Clams, mussels and oysters are important vehicles for the transmission of enteric diseases when consumed raw or undercooked. Vibrio species, including human pathogens, are particularly abundant in ...

A new paleontology study by UChicago researchers discovered that rock-boring clams, known as bivalves, vary in shape despite performing the same function. This paper is one of the first major studies ...

As the total worldwide fisheries yield from exploitation of wild stocks has declined, the production from mariculture, defined as the cultivation of organisms in their natural marine environment, has ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Marine bivalves are an important component of our global fishery, with over 500 species harvested for food and other uses. Our understanding of their potential vulnerability to ...