Climate Change Seminars
Beginning in the summer of 2021, Downeast Institute began a Climate Change Seminar Series to highlight research being conducted to better understand how the marine environment is changing, [...]
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 [...]
Recycled oyster shell project targets ocean acidification along Maine coast
Researchers hope the oyster shell study will prove to be a viable way to revive flagging softshell clam harvests. Date: April 23, 2021 Author: Kelley Bouchard Media: Portland Press Herald Link: [...]
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 [...]
Oysters are making a comeback along Maine’s coast, and not just at sea farms
The rapid growth of oyster aquaculture along Maine’s coast, one of the bright spots of how the changing climate is affecting the state’s marine economy, is producing another side benefit along [...]
New Ocean Acidification Laboratory Completed
DEI’s new laboratory for studying the impacts of ocean acidification and warming on marine organisms has been completed. The lab is now being used for studies that will increase [...]
Research to Support Clam Management Published
The results of studies investigating the effectiveness of a popular technique used by towns in the hopes that it will increase clam harvests was published in the December 2020 issue of Journal of [...]
Researchers Find Adding Shells to Mudflats for Coastal Acidification Does Not Enhance Clam Populations
Instead, Study Finds Excluding Predators Dramatically Increases Abundance of Juvenile Clams Freeport, ME —Spreading clam and oyster shells on the mudflats in an effort to counteract the effects [...]
