East Coast surf clams – and the industry that relies upon them – look to be successfully adapting to rising ocean temperatures as clam larvae survive in newly hospitable waters, according to a newly published study.
Drawing on three decades of surf clam stock survey data, professors Jeremy Timbs and Eric Powell of the University of Southern Mississippi and Roger Mann of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science found the shellfish are effectively shifting their range.
“For a sedentary species, surf clams are remarkably adaptable to ocean changes that would cause problems for other shellfish,” said Powell.
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