Two recently published studies raised concerns that the damage from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is even greater than first thought. One study found that the oil spill analysis contamination was greater than reported and the second that the spill damaged sea floor life for miles. Paul Sammarco of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium [...]

This summer a major reform of the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy was approved by Parliament. Part of this deal to overhaul fisheries policy includes ending decades of over-fishing, the rebuilding of dwindling stocks by 2020 and basing long term planning on sound scientific data. The plan has three important components: to stop overfishing by [...]

Apalachicola Bay, one of the country’s major estuaries and the home of Florida’s oyster industry, has had its oyster population drastically decline in what some are calling a budding ecological disaster. The number of adult oysters began to decline in 2007. This year the larvae of oysters are struggling to mature. It takes at least [...]

2013 Scallop Restoration Is Off To A Great Start Sarasota Bay Watch got an early start to scallop restoration this year, releasing it’s first batch of scallop larvae (6.7 million) on September 12th. This compares to last year’s November 10th first release, where scallop spawning was held back due to red tide threats. SBW quickly [...]