Media Coverage

By: Blair Best, Paul Koenig, and Emma Simard Maine Magazine Date: June 2019 Source: https://www.themainemag.com/features/50-mainers-2/ One of Maine’s greatest assets is its people—the [...]

November 7, 2018 by Stephen Rappaport on News, Uncategorized, Waterfront  Source: https://www.mdislander.com/uncategorized/weather-not-overfishing-to-blame-for-clam-decline BEALS — For years, [...]

By Brianna Bires  | Posted: Sun 3:07 PM, Aug 12, 2018  |  Updated: Mon 12:02 AM, Aug 13, 2018 [...]

 The expansion of the hatchery facility nearly doubles the space available to produce clams, quahogs, oysters, lobsters, and mussels for fisheries enhancement, research, and development. Author: [...]

June 28, 2018 by Stephen Rappaport on Environment, News, Waterfront Source: https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/waterfront/downeast-institute-nears-completion-of-6-6-million-expansion/ [...]

By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff • May 17, 2018 6:00 am Updated: May 17, 2018 6:15 pm The future of Maine’s softshell clam industry may depend on farming them rather than harvesting the shellfish in [...]

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-green-crab-predation-maine-clam.html May 16, 2018 by Brian Beal, University of Maine Juvenile soft-shell “steamer” clams are not surviving to [...]

By Brian Beal and Chad Coffin, Special to the BDN • May 14, 2018 12:26 pm Maine’s clamming industry, typically the second or third most economically important marine resource, saw landings fall [...]

June 17, 2017, MaineBiz Source: http://www.mainebiz.biz/article/20170609/NEWS01/170609941/downeast-institute-breaks-ground-on-$58m-expansion The Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and [...]

Associated Press Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-mussels-disappearance-gulf-of-maine-20160828-story.html New England is running out of mussels. The Gulf of Maine’s [...]