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Researchers used tinned fish to reconstruct parasitic population change, giving new meaning to the phrase “opening a can of worms”

A biologist at Cape Breton University is hoping a piece of technology used to keep people safe in the pandemic can help protect Nova Scotia's oysters against the effects of warming waters.

A new course from William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science recently gave a group of VIMS graduate students a learning experience that wasn’t just hands-on, but feet-wet and mouth-watering.Taught by Bill Walton, Acuff Professor in Wil

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Alex Marquardt and Anna Poslednik, graduate students at William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science, impressed at the recent Aquaculture 2022 conference in San Diego, earning both presentation awards bestowed by the National Shellfisheries Association (NSA).

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Pamela D’Angelo reports. It began with old preserved samples of a parasite called perkinsus. First recorded here in 1949, it causes a disease known as Dermo, which slows the ability of oysters to reproduce and can be fatal. But during the mid-1980s Dermo exploded, killing about 70% of wild oysters for decades. Virginia Institute of Marine Science scientists Ryan Carnegie and Lúcia Safi harvest oysters for research. Credit Paul Richardson of VIMS “This archive of many, many years of glass m...