England’s The Guardian newspaper recently featured Downeast Institute’s discovery of the cause of the decline of soft-shell clam populations and our work through the Clam Recruitment Monitoring Network to understand current levels of clam and other commercial species of shellfish recruitment levels, survival, and growth, along with green crab demographics. Researcher and DEI Associate Director Sara Randall was interviewed for the story.

Read the story here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/15/saving-maine-softshell-clams-climate-crisis-green-crab.

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