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Article: Where do they roam before they grow up to be scallops? A graduate student peers into shellfish larvae's mysterious pathway to adulthood.(Report)
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- Oceanus
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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With a cool ocean breeze under a cloud less sky, children weave small sailboats through the channel Larger boats scurry out of Waquoit Bay to fish in Nantucket Sound or spend a day at Martha's Vineyard. People not on the water are hitting tennis balls or relaxing by the beach.
It's a typical summer day at the Menauhant Yacht Club in East Falmouth, Mass. A picture-postcard scene you could find at any yacht club on Cape Cod in July--except for a tangled hose attached to a pump and a littering of filters and bottles spread out on a floating dock. A young woman in pigtails leans over the dock to pull two large orange bags from the ...