Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium MASGC
Just this past week, the House of Representatives voted to repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for beef, pork and chicken. At this point it is unclear how this will affect COOL labelling for seafood.
We have been working hard the past few...
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It’s time for the fishermen to fix up their boats and get ready for the 2015 shrimping season. The fishermen at the Biloxi dock have been working on their boats for the past month, and now they are getting ready to fill up their boat and heading...
Today, I watched a webinar demonstration of the Deepwater Horizon Project Tracking Tool. Basically, it's a website with an interactive map and other features. You can see on a map where oil-spill related research and restoration projects are taking...
The Oyster Trail is an interactive scavenger hunt through Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama. With 20 stops currently, and six more planned, you can travel around Mobile Bay along the Trail completing the hunt for oyster-related information....
When oysters hatch, the microscopic larvae are totally at the mercy of the environment. Controlled by time and tide, they move where and when the water takes them, sometimes landing far from where they were spawned. When they finally come to rest,...
Last week more than 1,000 scientists, agency staff, students and others met in Houston, Texas, to continue the conversation about oil spill science at the 2015 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystems conference. It was a busy week for our Oil...
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