Riverside Conservancy

Riverside Conservancy continues to monitor clam growth in the Indian River Lagoon following an out-planting of a half-million baby Mercenaria mercenaria hard clams in early May at the Edgewater location. Riverside workers recently sampled lagoon soil, counting and measuring collected juvenile clams before returning them into the lagoon. Quarterly clam surveys will continue to track growth and survival rates at Riverside Conservancy, as well as at two other Volusia County sites in this grant-funded project.

Lagoon Lecture Thursday at Riverside Conservancy Center.

What happens to an oyster shell after the last bite? At the Marine Discovery Center, it becomes part of a growing effort to restore habitat in the Indian River Lagoon and beyond.

Tess Sailor-Tynes, MDC’s conservation science coordinator, will discuss the organization’s Shuck & Share program during the Riverside Conservancy’s Lagoon Lecture series at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 18, at Riverside Conservancy, 1413 S. Riverside Drive, Edgewater.

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