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A New Method for Eelgrass Restoration - Short Version

Save the Sound's Soundkeeper Team is working with SAVE Environmental & the Cornell Cooperative Extension to restore eel grass populations throughout the Long Island Sound. Eel grass is the dominant sea grass species in the LIS. Unfortunately, eel grass populations have declined dramatically over the past 75 years. Eel grass provides countless ecosystem services, such as providing food for migratory water fowl and sea turtles. Our innovative project tests a method of revitalizing eel grass restoration by harvesting eel grass seeds, gluing them to clams and deploying these clams in specific NYSDEC permitted experimental areas in the Sound. In this past year, with financial support from 11th Hour Racing, we achieved a successful planting of 8,500 clams loaded with eel grass seeds in a 2-acre site in Smithtown Bay, NY. Filmed by: David Seigerman & Emma DeLoughry Edited by: Emma DeLoughry Funded by: 11th Hour Racing Music: "Great Egret" by Chad Crouch from SoundofPicture.com Special Thanks to: Save Environmental Cornell Cooperative Extension Fisher's Island Seagrass Management Coalition