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Article: Giant clam invasion slow going
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- Press of Atlantic City
- Article date:
- June 8, 2007
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Giant clams are looking for homes in southern Ocean County. OK, not real giant clams - 5-foot-tall, 90-pound fiberglass clams painted by local artists as part of an effort to fund restoring the Barnegat Bay clam population.
To sponsor a clam, be ready to spend $3,500 for one year. The payoff? A sponsorship enables ReClam the Bay to put 400,000 clams in Barnegat Bay or to teach volunteers and others about caring for the bay. The giant clam is also an eye-catching addition to a business.
The nonprofit ReClam the Bay is running the program through Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County.
But since the launch of the giant clams last fall, only nine southern Ocean County businesses ...