Todd Osborne

“After 8 weeks, they found just 39, all adults of similar size and age.”

“We spawned the adults and got 40 million larvae.”

“Osbourne and his team have since grown and outplanted 65 million juvenile seed clams and adults in the lagoon.”

“Monitoring shows that about half of the outplanted adult clams survived after two years.”

“while 10 to 13 per cent of seed clams survived after a year.”

“Under the NOAA award, Osborne helped select two sites for outplanting 21 million clams.”

“So far, the team has released 7 million seed clams and 2 million adults near Stuart, Florida.”

“Clams require brackish water with a salinity of 18 to 35 parts per thousand.”