Colleen Brust and Caitlin McGarigal from the NJ Research and Monitoring Initiative came to tour the Haskin Shellfish Research Lab Aquaculture facilitates (Cape Shore Laboratory and Aquaculture Innovation Center) to see some of the ongoing experiments funded for a project funded by RMI. The primary objectives of this project are to 1) better understand how planting density of surfclams may change the survival and growth of those seed (juvenile) surfclams and 2) to evaluate the predation rates and size preferences of key predators on surfclam seed. The data in this study will help guide decision makers in surfclam fishery enhancement planning.
