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What are those boxes in Casco Bay’s mudflats?

Casco Bay, Maine, United States

Marine researchers have placed rows of wooden “recruitment boxes” in Casco Bay mudflats to measure how many juvenile soft-shell clams settle and survive when protected from predators. The monitoring helps document the long-term collapse of Maine’s soft-shell clam fishery and the role of invasive green crabs and warming waters.


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