Comments on: A Hard Day’s Clam http://www.scienceline.org/2009/06/15/storrs-environment-clams-mollusks-long-island-great-south-bay/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael http://www.scienceline.org/2009/06/15/storrs-environment-clams-mollusks-long-island-great-south-bay/comment-page-1/#comment-4264 Michael Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:53:55 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2009/06/15/storrs-environment-clams-mollusks-long-island-great-south-bay/#comment-4264 Islip Town has been planting oyster seed in it's waters for roughly five years. They also plant between 10-50 million clam seed annually in the Islip waters of the Great South Bay. So I wouldn't call it a small program. Just not as well known. Islip's most productive year was 68 million Hard Clam seed and 5 million Oysters. Their program is one of the largest municipal run programs on the east coast, and definitivly the largest shellfish restoration effort on the Great South Bay. Islip Town has been planting oyster seed in it’s waters for roughly five years. They also plant between 10-50 million clam seed annually in the Islip waters of the Great South Bay. So I wouldn’t call it a small program. Just not as well known. Islip’s most productive year was 68 million Hard Clam seed and 5 million Oysters. Their program is one of the largest municipal run programs on the east coast, and definitivly the largest shellfish restoration effort on the Great South Bay.

]]> By: Carina Storrs http://www.scienceline.org/2009/06/15/storrs-environment-clams-mollusks-long-island-great-south-bay/comment-page-1/#comment-3191 Carina Storrs Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:13:09 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2009/06/15/storrs-environment-clams-mollusks-long-island-great-south-bay/#comment-3191 Dear Tony Novak, Thanks for your question about oysters in Great South Bay. Right now there aren't any efforts being made to stock those waters with oysters. Carl LoBue says that The Nature Conservancy has considered a project like this, but it will be more difficult than hard clam restoration because there are not any oysters there to help jump start the population (and have not been any since the 1940s). But, if they continue to have success with hard clams, he says the Conservancy would be encouraged to try the same approach for oysters. Dear Tony Novak,

Thanks for your question about oysters in Great South Bay. Right now there aren’t any efforts being made to stock those waters with oysters. Carl LoBue says that The Nature Conservancy has considered a project like this, but it will be more difficult than hard clam restoration because there are not any oysters there to help jump start the population (and have not been any since the 1940s). But, if they continue to have success with hard clams, he says the Conservancy would be encouraged to try the same approach for oysters.

]]> By: Tony Novak http://www.scienceline.org/2009/06/15/storrs-environment-clams-mollusks-long-island-great-south-bay/comment-page-1/#comment-3119 Tony Novak Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:32:38 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2009/06/15/storrs-environment-clams-mollusks-long-island-great-south-bay/#comment-3119 Can anyone comment on whether oysters have made any comeback in Great South Bay or if TNC has any similar projects with Can anyone comment on whether oysters have made any comeback in Great South Bay or if TNC has any similar projects with

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