Status Update...

Well, no pictures this time! Last week we went out to measure my scallops again. If you don't remember, the last time I went out to my site to do the 2 week measurement, I lost ~30% of my scallops. My suspicions were they were dead or dying when I put them out - confirmed by the fact that their sizes were more or less exactly the same as they were when I initially measured them. The lack of any mortality this past time also supports the idea that they must have died bc of transport practices, something I will need to reconsider the next time I run this experiment. But I was very happy to see the survival as such, and to see the scallops growing well. This will run until the end of October, when I will also run a predation experiment again to see any differences between summer and fall, when the predator community is likely both different and more inactive. I also might be doing an overwintering experiment with my mats - more on that as I figure it out.