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From Problem to Plate: Manomet Co-Hosts Green Crab Working Summit During Green Crab Week 2026
When researchers, chefs, harvesters, and seafood suppliers gather in Portland, Maine, this June, they'll be tackling one of coastal New England's most stubborn ecological crises with a fork. Manomet Conservation Sciences will join GreenCrab.org, Eating with the Ecosystem, and NH Sea Grant as a co-organizer of the Green Crab Working Summit, returning to O'Maine Studios in Portland on June 24th. The summit is the centerpiece of Green Crab Week, running June 22–28, 2026, and reflects a growing movement to fight an invasive species not just with traps and monitoring data, but with menus. A Pest With a 200-Year Head Start The European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) is widely considered one of the world's worst invasive species, and its populations and...
The Green Crab Working Summit
On June 24th, join GreenCrab.org, Manomet Conservation Sciences, NH Sea Grant, and Eating with the Ecosystem for the second Green Crab Working Summit at O’Maine Studios in Portland, Maine! The Green Crab Working Summit aims to support the growth of green crab markets by: Fostering collaboration and innovation among seafood suppliers, harvesters, chefs, and researchers across the Northeast Identifying knowledge gaps and challenges associated with harvesting, distributing, cooking, processing, and marketing green crabs Strengthening green crab supply chains Showcasing green crab markets, products, and culinary efforts The Green Crab Working Summit is hosted during Green Crab Week: a week dedicated to eating green crabs in partnership with restaurants across the US. Summit elements include: Panels and Presentations: Featuring harvesters, product...
Ruddy Turnstone Tagged on Cape Cod Spotted in Brazil After Tracker Signal Is Lost
We have an exciting update to share, fitting perfectly into the celebrations of World Migratory Bird Day. Last spring, on the tidal flats of Cape Cod, a Ruddy Turnstone paused to rest and refuel as many thousands of shorebirds do in Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers from Manomet Conservation Sciences carefully fitted it with a tiny satellite transmitter, a numbered band, and a pale green leg flag with the code >C0, and released it back to the wind. Below, you can see a slow-motion video by biologist and videographer Benjamin Clock capturing the very moment >C0 receives its leg flag and transmitter. What followed was extraordinary. Signals from the transmitter revealed that >C0 flew north to breed in the Canadian...
Staying On Top of the Mud | From the Ground Up
I grew up in a fishing family in a small coastal community in Maine called Georgetown. One of my most vivid memories as a child was going clam digging with my family in Sagadahoc Bay. The Bay is massive. On a low draining tide, you walk for over a mile to get from the beach at the head of the Bay to the low tide line at the mouth. We would Tidal mudflats may seem like a bare and desolate landscape, but they are teeming with life: Clams, worms, snails, crabs, amphipods, and many other species thrive here. At high tide, when the flats are covered with water, they are an important feeding ground for fish, ducks, and other marine...
The Red Knot That Flew to the Moon and Back
"On April 1, 2026, humans launched Artemis II toward the Moon. But one small bird had already logged that journey on its wings. In February 1995, on a beach at Río Grande on the Atlantic coast of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, scientists banded hundreds of Red Knots (Calidris canutus rufa), each with a small, numbered flag. One of them—B95—would become a legend. Banded by Argentine biologist Patricia González, it was resighted many times over the years, from Lagoa do Peixe in Brazil to Delaware Bay, and recaptured at least three times. In 2007, when at least 14 years old, it was described as “as fit as a three-year-old.” Every year, rufa Red Knots travel nearly 9,000 miles from the southern tip of South America to the Arctic—and back again. B95 kept going. Year after year. Through storms, across continents, in a...
New Tools Track the Return and Future of River Herring
Each spring, river herring begin a remarkable journey from the ocean back into freshwater rivers and streams to spawn. Tracking that movement and understanding what happens next are critical to rebuilding populations that have declined across much of their range. To support that effort, Manomet and partners in the Gulf of Maine River Herring Network have developed two new data platforms that bring together monitoring efforts across the region, offering a clearer picture of both returning adults and the next generation of fish. The first platform, ECOFISH, compiles data on adult river herring returning to freshwater habitats each year. By aggregating counts from monitoring sites along the U.S. East Coast, it helps track migration patterns and population trends over time....
A Transformative Nine Weeks on the Bluff: a Reflection from Intern Julia Beyer
I’ve been incredibly lucky to work as the Education and Outreach intern at Manomet in the summer of 2025 through my Smith College Praxis internship. I’m double majoring in Environmental Science and Policy and Latin American Studies, and I spent nine weeks immersed in conservation outreach, environmental education, and fieldwork. One morning during those nine weeks, I woke up before dawn to accompany banding intern Grace Whitten to MAPS banding at Myles Standish State Forest. We walked the net lanes at precisely timed intervals, moving quietly through the morning, talking with Grace and Andrew Single about banding experiences, plant evolution, and whatever else our slightly foggy brains drifted toward while we waited for the next net run. At the end...
Zoey Chapman
Zoey Chapman is a Research Specialist at Manomet Conservation Sciences, where she provides data analysis and logistical support for long-term monitoring of shorebirds across the Arctic. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology from Clemson University, and has spent several field seasons collaborating with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on shorebird and waterfowl breeding ecology projects across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Zoey is passionate about using emerging technology to advance conservation science, with a particular interest in developing computer vision models to monitor nesting birds. At Manomet, she is excited to support long-term data collection that deepens understanding of arctic breeding ecology. When she’s not in the field, Zoey can usually be found with...
From Failure to 400,000 Quahogs: A Breakthrough Season for the Fisheries Team
At the end of the 2024 field season, the Fisheries Team was in a bit of a pickle. We had just spent the entire summer testing a method for growing quahog seed (also called hard clams), and the experiment completely failed. All the quahogs, 200,000 of them, died. We think it was likely due to environmental conditions that were out of our control, but it left us feeling defeated and unsure what our next step was. Quahogs are an important fishery along the East Coast of the U.S., but are relatively new in Maine where historically cold ocean temperatures kept abundance low. However, in recent years, warming waters have created more suitable habitat for quahogs along the coast of Maine...
The Push To Get Invasive Crabs On The Menu | Noema
For chefs and fishermen in Maine, green crabs’ proliferation along the coast brings both a challenge and an opportunity. Sarah Mafféïs for Noema Magazine FeatureClimate Crisis By Kirsten Lie-NielsenNovember 11, 2025 XBlueskyEmailLinkedInFacebook Kirsten Lie-Nielsen is a writer focusing on issues of climate and food. Her work can be found in The Guardian, Civil Eats and The Boston Globe. She lives in Maine, where she is currently working on a memoir. CASCO BAY, Maine — It’s a humid summer day on an island off the coast of Maine. Thick air seeps into the cabin, making everything feel damp, even the white bedsheets that smell of salt and mothballs. Down by the cove at the forest’s edge, the dogs sniff along a strip...