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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 [...]

The Ellsworth American details some of Downeast Institute's work with communities to reverse the trend of decreasing clam harvests.

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 [...]

Downeast Institute among only 4 recipients of national grant competition to work with shellfish farming industry to create resilience to impacts of climate change.

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

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, [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]