shellfish

For commercial abalone farmers, “four years is a long time to raise a shellfish to the size of a duck’s egg.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

It was particularly damaging for these fishermen because Dungeness crabs tend to be their most lucrative catch of the year, making the shellfish, Jardine said, a kind of “gilded trap.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

The heat has warmed the lagoons, boosting the growth of algae that cover the shellfish.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

Grant Watson, who works aboard a Bridlington-based fishing boat, said the redesigned pots were helping ensure a "stronger future" for the shellfish industry by minimising its impact.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

Their water came from a little brackish well beside the hut; their food was fish and shellfish, fresh or dried, and rockweed.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Here sea creatures come to live, fishes swim hungrily to and fro, and shellfishes die in the mud which, by and by, is to become firm rock with stony animal remains embedded in it.

From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin