Volunteers glue seeds to clam shells in Connecticut

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVolunteers in Connecticut are gluing eelgrass seeds to clam shells, and then dropping the clams into Long Island Sound, Popular Science reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd it's working. After the last planting, drone images showed eelgrass coverage up a hundred and seventy-eight percent, according to the team.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWhy the clams?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBecause clams bury themselves, which tucks the seeds into the sand.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe engineer who came up with it said the idea is as simple as it seems.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe best part is the glue.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThey moved on from coral reef glue to wet rice paper, the kind used for spring rolls, and germination got better.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNot all the wrappers stayed on. The team's position, I assume, is that the seeds were always meant to be independent.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEelgrass around the sound is down more than ninety percent since the nineteen thirties. And a dozen people sat down for two hours with a clam and a seed.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'm sorry, I need a second.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHank, you're crying over a clam.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThey want ten thousand clams and three hundred thousand seeds out this season. Some of those wrappers will fall off.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe clams, to their credit, will stay.