Soft-Shell Clams

In May of 2019, DEI scientists deployed studies across the Maine coast that will determine if the brushing method works to increase clam populations. This study marks the first time ever that [...]

In 2018, DEI set up a comparative field experiment at two coves in Cutler and Machiasport to investigate how soft-shell clams react to acidic seawater and sediments and also assess the importance [...]

DEI studied soft-shell clam recruitment in the St. George River and Westkeag River in Thomaston and South Thomaston in 2017 and Thomaston in 2018. In June 2017, a series of soft-shell clam [...]

In 2012, clammers from the Maine Clammers Association sounded the alarm about the dramatic increase in invasive green crab populations in Casco Bay and the corresponding decrease in soft-shell [...]

During the summer and fall of 2014 and 2015, area biologists from the Maine Department of Marine Resources and DEI staff teamed up to examine the efficacy of using predator-deterrent netting to [...]

Beginning in May 2014 and 2015, we initiated a study in Wells (Webhannet River) and in Portland (Fore River) to examine the interactive effects of tidal height and predator exclusion on the [...]

Field Experiments to Investigate Methods of Attracting Wild Soft- Shell Clam Juveniles to Discrete Areas of the Intertidal Zone in Stockton Harbor (Stockton Springs 2007) In 2007, DEI received a [...]

In April 2007, DEI began a clam farm demonstration project with clammers and the shellfish committee in the Washington County township of Edmunds and in the town of Lubec.  The project is funded [...]

From November 2001 to December 2006, DEI and the University of Maine at Machias received funding from the New Hampshire Estuaries Project to examine the reasons for high mortality of soft-shell [...]