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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

2013 Experiments: #1: Green crab exclusionary fencing #2: Green crab trapping #3: Effects of netting on clam survival #4: Growth rates of juvenile clams across the tidal gradient

Milky ribbons worms were identified through DEI’s research as a major predator of soft-shell clams, contributing to the decline of soft-shell clam populations, especially in southern Maine. IIn [...]