Soft-Shell Clams

Downeast Institute has established a soft-shell Clam Recruitment Monitoring Network that spans the entire coast of Maine.

During 2021, Downeast Institute and partners continued our work testing the effects of sediment buffering (adding recycled crushed shells to mudflats) vs predator protection on commercial [...]

  In May of 2019, DEI scientists deployed studies across the Maine coast to determine if the traditional practice of brushing works to increase soft-shell clam populations, the first time [...]

Summary In 2018, DEI conducted a comparative field experiment at two coves, one in Cutler and one in Machiasport, to investigate how soft-shell clams react to acidic seawater and sediments, and [...]

DEI studied soft-shell clam recruitment in the St. George River and the Weskeag River in 2017, and the upper St. George River in 2018.