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DEI’s research to find the cause of the clam decline identified milky ribbons worms to be a major predator of soft-shell clams, especially in southern Maine. In an effort to research methods to [...]

Source: The Times Record Author: Susan Olcott Date: April 16, 2020 Intertidal: A chance to understand what it takes to sustain a fishery For the last few weeks, I’ve written about ways that [...]

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

Media: Seacoast Online Author: Susan Pike Date: January 29, 2020 Source: https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200129/nature-news-join-soft-shell-clam-recruitment-network Dr. Brian Beal, Director [...]

Bremen Clam Experiment Shows No Benefit from Brushing, Netting Newspaper: The Lincoln County News Date published: January 16, 2020 at 9:01 am Author: Alexander Violo Web address: [...]

Enhancing clam recruitment along the Maine coast Nov. 18, 2019 by Abigail Muscat, Maine Sea Grant Scientists at the Downeast Institute, led by Dr. Brian Beal, have been studying whether [...]

Source: Lincoln County News Author: Alexander Violo Date: November 8, 2019 Link: https://lcnme.com/currentnews/harvesters-scientists-team-up-on-clam-study-in-bremen/ Harvesters, Scientists Team [...]

The Downeast Institute’s Sara Randall presented the results of DEI’s field research into the effects of sediment buffering and predator exclusion on soft-shell clams during the Ocean [...]

Dr. Brian Beal has been appointed to serve on the Science and Technical Subcommittee of the Maine Climate Council by Governor Janet Mills. The Climate Council, proposed by Gov. Janet Mills in [...]