New effort to boost quahog crop
Small quahogs
Excepted and edited from an article in ecoRI news
Three wire bins containing about 20 quahogs each sit inside a giant tank burbling with rust-colored water in a basement marine laboratory at Roger Williams University, in Bristol, R.I.
Although they may look as if they aren’t doing anything special besides existing, these quahogs are part of an innovative effort to study and boost the population of the iconic, native hard clam in Narragansett Bay.
Funded through a Partnership for Research Excellence in Sustainable Seafood (PRESS) grant from the University of Rhode Island supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the initiative will help expand hatchery production, strengthen disease monitoring, and accelerate quahog restoration in Rhode Island.