Fall 2023 Ocean Acidification Fellow
Downeast Institute is pleased to announce our Fall 2023 Fellow, Alyssa Goncalves. Alyssa is a master’s student at UMass Boston in the Poynton Lab, which studies toxicology. While at [...]
Investigating Factors Affecting Growth and Survival of Clams in West Jonesport (2022)
A pilot study was conducted in West Jonesport in 2022 to examine effects of: 1) tidal height; 2) stocking density; and, 3) predator exclusion using netting on the survival and growth of [...]
Sunrise Senior College Offers FREE class with Dr. Brian Beal on the Future of Shellfish in the Gulf of Maine
Sunrise Senior College at the University of Maine at Machias is offering a FREE class about the future of shellfish in the gulf of Maine with Dr. Brian Beal on Wednesday, February 9. W2205- The [...]
Coastwide Data on 2020 Clam Recruitment Released
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 [...]
Public invited to see clam restoration efforts
On June 6, join DEI's Shellfish Production Manager Kyle Pepperman in Gouldboro to learn about different techniques used to restore clamflats. Gouldsboro Shellfish Committee has built a Shellfish [...]
Clammers digging through pandemic, but shellfish are fewer
Chad Coffin has spent the coronavirus pandemic much as he has the previous several decades: on the mudflats of Maine, digging for the clams that draw tourists to seafood shacks around New [...]
Shellfish lab finds a home in Bunkers Harbor
A former clam-buying station is poised to get a facelift and start operating as a shellfish laboratory next spring in Bunkers Harbor. The facility, which will raise and scatter baby soft-shell [...]
New England clammers press through pandemic
Date: Sept. 7, 2020 Media: Portland Press Herald, Associated Press Author: Patrick Whittle Source: [...]
