Breaking bags and crunching clams: assessing whitespotted eagle ray interactions with hard clam aquaculture gear

Shallow coastal waters are commonly used in shellfish aquaculture for ‘grow-out’ of bivalves like the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria. These locations have substantially higher clam densities than the surrounding environment and attract molluscivores, requiring clammers to incorporate anti-predator...

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Main Authors: BV Cahill, KL McCulloch, BC DeGroot, K Bassos-Hull, MJ Ajemian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Inter-Research 2023-03-01
Series:Aquaculture Environment Interactions
Online Access:https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/aei/v15/p59-71/