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A new film tells the story about how a group of dedicated community members began a 4-H project to grow clams and, through grit and determination, persevered to build a public shellfish hatchery [...]

Researchers hope the oyster shell study will prove to be a viable way to revive flagging softshell clam harvests. Date: April 23, 2021 Author: Kelley Bouchard Media: Portland Press Herald Link: [...]

Chad Coffin has spent the coronavirus pandemic much as he has the previous several decades: on the mudflats of Maine, digging for the clams that draw tourists to seafood shacks around New [...]

The Covid-19 pandemic has not derailed DEI’s mission to provide high quality science education. Since March, DEI’s educators have been working hard to adapt our education program to [...]

The rapid growth of oyster aquaculture along Maine’s coast, one of the bright spots of how the changing climate is affecting the state’s marine economy, is producing another side benefit along [...]

DEI’s new laboratory for studying the impacts of ocean acidification and warming on marine organisms has been completed. The lab is now being used for studies that will increase [...]

Downeast Institute, in partnership with Blue Hill Bay Mussels, has found a solution, the Beals-based organization says, to weaning the state’s Maine mussel farmers from being fully reliant on [...]

The results of studies investigating the effectiveness of a popular technique used by towns in the hopes that it will increase clam harvests was published in the December 2020 issue of Journal of [...]

Major strides towards increasing the sustainability of rope-grown blue mussels were achieved in 2020. With funding from Sea Grant and others, DEI has created an affordable hatchery source of [...]

Source: WABI TV 5 Date: Dec. 11, 2020 Read more here:: https://www.wabi.tv/2020/12/11/maine-sea-grant-announces-bouy-maine-pitch-contest-winners/