Media Coverage

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 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 [...]

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 Read more here:: https://www.wabi.tv/2020/12/11/maine-sea-grant-announces-bouy-maine-pitch-contest-winners/

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/

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/  

News Source: The Working Waterfront Author: Hannah Greene Date: Oct. 220, 2020 Link: https://www.islandinstitute.org/working-waterfront/22378/