"A good healthy shellfish population maintains the water quality."

Black carp eat snails and mussels and would probably strip our native mollusk and shellfish populations, with all kinds of consequences.

The physical health of local communities has been diminished from this loss of shellfish populations, as they provided an essential source of dietary protein.

Much of the group's work will center on studying shellfish populations to see where they thrive, where they die out, where they reproduce fastest, officials said.

Other natural habitat-based solutions include restoration of shellfish populations, such as oysters.

A company in Oyster Bay has also been increasing shellfish populations.

As such, numerous research projects are assessing the potential of restored shellfish populations to reduce HAB occurrence.

One proposed solution to eutrophication in estuaries is to restore shellfish populations, such as oysters.

Lee suggests that environmental stress on shellfish populations and the movement of people into the interior prompted groups to become more reliant on cultivated plants in their diets.

Many other fish and shellfish populations suffered.