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Dr. Brian Beal explains the connection between dwindling commercial supplies of clams, increased prices, and loss of market share for one of Maine's most important fisheries.

Arctic surfclams, Mactromeris polynyma, are a $100 million fishery in Atlantic Canada and Quebec. This valuable species grows in the Gulf of Maine, but commercial quantities don’t exist in Maine [...]

The Ellsworth American covered Downeast Institute's research into the feasibility of growing scallops in lobster pounds in an effort to find culture methods that protect them from predators while [...]