Tag Archives: critters
Cleaning up that dirty water: Massachusetts Oyster Project at Boston Harbor
On a balmy, overcast October afternoon, I found myself wearing pink gardening gloves and digging through a large wheelbarrow full of dirty, year-old oysters. I wasn't shopping for the ev ..
Continue Reading
Big mother shucker
We recently visited Shucks Maine Lobster in Richmond, ME. Instead of boiling lobsters to detach and sell cooked meat, Shucks applies high pressure water to kill the lobster and detach raw meat from ..
Continue Reading
Q&A with whale researcher Laura Howes
Laura Howes is the database manager and intern coordinator at the Whale Center of New England. The Whale Center, located in Gloucester, MA, is one of several whale research institutes dotting the ..
Continue Reading
Mystic’s dancing belugas
One of the threatened animals on IUCN's list of endangered marine mammals in the Atlantic is the beluga whale, also known as the white whale.
That mariachi-loving beluga resides at the Mys ..
Continue Reading
