Long Island Sound Eelgrass Restoration: Project Updates

Our Soundkeeper team and the founder of SAVE Environmental discuss our ongoing eelgrass restoration project in Long Island Sound. Eelgrass is the dominant seagrass species in LIS, but unfortunately populations have declined dramatically over the past 75 years. Eelgrass provides countless ecosystem services, such as providing food for migratory water fowl and sea turtles. Over the past 2 years, we have harvested eelgrass seeds from Fisher’s Island and glued these seeds onto hatchery clams that we have deployed in Smithtown Bay, NY. Our hope is that when these clams burrow themselves into the sand, the eelgrass seeds will germinate and populations of eelgrass meadows will rebound. This restoration project, funded by 11th Hour Racing, was conceived by Rob Vasiluth at SAVE Environmental is a partnership between the Soundkeeper and the Cornell Cooperative Extension. Live webinar was held on Dec. 8, 2022.

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