Portraits of Blue Mussel Shells,” a solo exhibition by Maine visual artist Carolyn Butera, on view at the library from Feb.

Bivalves have been a big part of the regional diet ever since Native peoples started feasting on them millennia ago — ancient heaps of discarded shells along the Maine shore document as much. Several ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On hot summer days, we find them trying to stay cool and moist underneath ...

In Massachusetts, common blue mussels may not have the star power of Wellfleet oysters or the charisma of quahogs. But like all shellfish they play an important role in marine ecosystems. Mussels are ...

Fish guts for compost. Mussel shells for driveway surfacing. These are a couple of the ways seafood processors are repurposing “residuals” to create additional revenue streams, rather than just ...

One of the best ways to spend a hot summer day in the Seacoast is at the beach. Even better — exploring the beach and the surrounding intertidal. Who doesn’t love poking around in tide pools, gently ...

MACKWORTH ISLAND, Maine — It’s a chilly August morning off the southern coast of Maine and the mudflats extend as far as the eye can see. Clad in heavy rubber boots, Carissa Maurin and Sheba Brown ...

This week, we are focusing on something very familiar to Mainers: mussels! Most of us know them best on our dinner plates. But these shellfish are actually doing much more than just tasting great.

Since its arrival in the 1980s, the Asian shore crab has become one of the most dominant crab species in New England. But the area's native blue mussel has evolved to develop a defense against it -- ...

A 2017 analysis that looked at historic versus recent distributing areas of the species and found that the populations have declined by almost 50% of its historic range and it has been accelerating in ...