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Commission hears preview of 13th year of lake-wide Asian clam survey
Summary
Commissioners received an overview of lake-wide Asian clam sampling: volunteers and staff sampled sandy shorelines using sieves at established sites; presenters described sampling intensity and thanked volunteers, noting the program's 13th consecutive year.
Chair introduced item 6 as an update on lake-wide Asian clam sampling and asked Randy to present the overview. Randy (introduced by staff as the survey lead) said the program has run 13 years and that volunteers and staff conducted six days of sampling in late August and early September. "This is the 13th year of the survey," Randy said, explaining the method (10–20 sieves per person at sandy shoreline sites) and that sampling focused on known sites plus some new locations.
Randy and staff thanked volunteers and commissioners who helped with fieldwork and noted that the team would compile counts and site-level notes for distribution. The presenters did not present consolidated numbers in the meeting excerpt but described field logistics, sampling method and the intention to quantify presence/absence and relative abundance at historically monitored sites.
