News from DEI

Comprehensive information about clam settlement across Maine’s mudflats in 2020 has been released in a Technical Report. Overall, researchers found lower than expected average juvenile clam [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

During 2020, DEI conducted a pilot study to determine whether it is possible to grow oysters and other shellfish in the Downeast region’s unused lobster pounds. Cold water temperatures in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The results of soft-shell clam surveys conducted at eighteen flats across all three regions of the Maine coast were released in a report by the Downeast Institute (DEI) today. The surveys provide [...]

Beals —The Downeast Institute (DEI) has received a $5,000 grant from the Belvedere Natural Resource Preservation Fund (Downeast) of the Maine Community Foundation to support the incubation of a [...]