Adding value to live, commercial size soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria L.) in Maine, USA: results from repeated, small-scale, field impoundment trials

Implications of high-precision measurements of 13 C– 18 O bond ordering in CO 2 for thermometry in modern bivalved mollusc shells

“…Average water temperatures for the period July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003 based on hourly records from NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS meteorological station 8413320 Bar Harbor (44.392°N, 68.205°W) is 7.2 ± 5.6°C. However, in eastern Maine most shell growth in M. arenaria occurs between early April and the beginning of September (Beal, 2002;Beal et al, 2001) so we used that constraint and the earliest available tabulated records for station 8413320 (2010) to obtain a calibration temperature of 11 ± 2.7°C. Samples of crossed-lamellar aragonite from the commissural areas of two valves.…”

Withdrawn: “A health status survey of clams, Mya arenaria and Ensis siliqua, in the Irish Sea”

“…This clam is currently fished on North American shores (Beal, 2002;Connell et al, 2007), and is considered a species of interest for future commercial exploitation in the Irish Sea. Ensis siliqua, the razor clam, is a native species in Europe, and is distributed along the European Atlantic coast from the Norwegian Sea south to the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of Morocco (DaCosta et al, 2010).…”

The Reproductive Biology of the Softshell Clam,Mya arenaria, in Ireland, and the Possible Impacts of Climate Variability

“…The softshell clam, Mya arenaria, is widely distributed in coastal and intertidal soft substrates in boreal waters and is often a dominant species in benthic communities [1]. Mya arenaria currently occupies a wide geographical range in the northern hemisphere, on the east and west coasts of North America, where it is commercially important for fisheries and aquaculture [2,3]. In 2008 alone, the National Marine Fisheries Service of USA reported approximately 1.73 million kg of M. arenaria harvested, worth in excess of C16 million [4].…”