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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 [...]

Source: WABI TV 5 Date: Dec. 11, 2020 Link for text: https://www.wabi.tv/2020/12/11/maine-sea-grant-announces-bouy-maine-pitch-contest-winners/ Maine Sea Grant announces ‘Buoy Maine’ [...]

A former clam-buying station is poised to get a facelift and start operating as a shellfish laboratory next spring in Bunkers Harbor. The facility, which will raise and scatter baby soft-shell [...]

Maine Sea Grant is pleased to announce that Buoy Maine, a pitch competition designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurship that supports Maine’s working waterfront and coastal communities, [...]

News Source: The Working Waterfront Author: Andy Therriault Date: Oct. 29, 2020. Link: https://www.islandinstitute.org/working-waterfront/22496/ FELLOWS WORKING ON PROJECTS IN HANCOCK, WASHINGTON [...]

News Source: The Maine Campus Author: Madeline Date: Oct. 25, 2020 Link: https://mainecampus.com/2020/10/pandemic-pivot-maines-seafood-community-remains-innovative-and-resilient/ The seafood [...]

News Source: The Working Waterfront Author: Hannah Greene Date: Oct. 220, 2020 Link: https://www.islandinstitute.org/working-waterfront/22378/ ‘Let’s find out’ is how answers are found [...]

Date: Sept. 7, 2020 Media: Portland Press Herald, Associated Press Author: Patrick Whittle Source: [...]

Date: Aug. 31, 2020 Media: Mount Desert Islander Author: Liz Graves Source: https://www.mdislander.com/maine-news/waterfront/clam-protection FREEPORT — Clam landings have declined over the past [...]

Instead, Study Finds Excluding Predators Dramatically Increases Abundance of Juvenile Clams Freeport, ME —Spreading clam and oyster shells on the mudflats in an effort to counteract the effects [...]