Feasibility Experiment in Stabilizing Canadian Mussel Seed Transplanted into New England Waters, Topic Number 16

摘要

Results are presented of an experiment to acquire mussel seed from Casco and Penobscot Bays, Maine; Passamaquoddy Bay, New Brunswick; and from Beverly, Massachusetts; and to determine its stabilization and subsequent growth in the water leasehold of the Abandoned Farm in Maine's Damariscotta River. All batches survived the winter, along with Abandoned Farm's own seed of comparable size, and evidenced predicted growth of a millimeter per month during winter water temperatures which bottomed out at -1C.