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Local Experts Help Create an Ocean Classroom for Students

Katrina Liu | Thursday, October 9 2025 - 12:45pm

Students from the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School and the regional high school gathered at the Vineyard Haven Lagoon landing Tuesday morning as part of a multi-faceted aquaculture education initiative.

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Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group

Vineyard's Sweetest Fishing Season

Mark Alan Lovewell

Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs shellfishermen saw a banner start to the bay scalloping season, and they share their reason why: Lagoon Pond.

Derek Cimeno, shellfish constable for Tisbury, is watching shellfishermen surrounded in bay scallops. "Six hundred bushels of bay scallops were taken in the first two days by family shellfishermen," Mr. Cimeno said.

Shellfish Kill at Lagoon Hatchery; Ninety Per Cent of Crop Is Lost; Failing Water Quality Is Cited

Julia Wells

The director of the Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group said yesterday that nearly four million healthy juvenile shellfish under culture at his Lagoo

Oil Spill in Edgartown Harbor Kills Million Baby Oysters and Fouls Waters

Julia Wells

Oil Spill in Edgartown Harbor Kills Million Baby Oysters and Fouls Waters

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

An oil spill of unknown origin sullied the pristine water of the outer Edgartown harbor yesterday, ruining an entire crop of juvenile shellfish at a hatchery owned by the Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group and posing a possible threat to the rich bay scallop beds off the north shore of Chappaquiddick.