Connecticut volunteers are attaching eelgrass seeds to living clams to restore meadows that have shrunk by 90%; after an early 178% rise in coverage, the team is testing rice-paper planting with 300,000 seeds
- Eelgrass Meadows (Representative image)In the shallow waters of Long Island Sound, Connecticut volunteers are using an unlikely pair of helpers to bring back an underwater forest: live clams and eelgrass seeds.
- Researchers and community members are gluing seeds to clam shells, then releasing the clams at carefully chosen sites where they burrow into the seabed and effectively plant the seeds.
- The approach, known as Seeds of Eelgrass Attached to Shellfish (SEAS), has already produced encouraging early results, with drone imagery showing a 178 percent increase in eelgrass meadow coverage after t
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- Eelgrass Meadows (Representative image)In the shallow waters of Long Island Sound, Connecticut volunteers are using an unlikely pair of helpers to bring back an underwater forest: live clams and eelgrass seeds.
- Researchers and community members are gluing seeds to clam shells, then releasing the clams at carefully chosen sites where they burrow into the seabed and effectively plant the seeds.
- The approach, known as Seeds of Eelgrass Attached to Shellfish (SEAS), has already produced encouraging early results, with drone imagery showing a 178 percent increase in eelgrass meadow coverage after t
Sources: Times of India