A pandemic-era crush of new interest in clamming on the California coast and widespread adoption of simple hydraulic pumps that allow people to harvest the shellfish faster and in greater numbers has ...

Peter Hope is a retired history teacher and clammer. His new book takes a look at the history of Maine clamming.

With a rake in one hand and a cooler bag in the other, I climbed out of a kayak ready to go clamming for the first time. I was with 18 others, all ready to rake and probe the sandbars off the warm ...

Aug. 21—Razor clamming is now open from the south jetty of the Siuslaw River to Cape Blanco, the Oregon Department of Agriculture and ODFW announced today. Recent shellfish samples indicate levels of ...

Sammy held the dark, odd-shaped, deep brown clump of stuff in his hand, showed it to me and said, ”Grandpa, is this doo-doo?” “NO-NO, no doo- doo, absolutely not,” I said. “It’s pure, clean, good mud.

For those of us who have difficulty finding peace while sitting in one place, clamming can be an unexpected escape. By Kim Gooden On these dark winter evenings, when the end of the day has crept up ...

Lawmakers in the three towns on the Great South Bay are considering new restrictions on clamming in local waters, drawing on the recommendations of a recent Suffolk County report that found the bay's ...

Clam-digging is almost universally misunderstood, it seems to me, even in clam-adjacent locales such as Long Island, where few seem capable of articulating digging’s charms, and fewer still can ...

Fifty years ago this week, Congress adopted the Clean Water Act, a landmark in environmental legislation aimed at cleaning up many of the nation’s waterways that had become too polluted for people to ...

Need a unique family activity that offers a connection to the outdoors — and a tasty reward? Clamming in Western Washington is the perfect choice. Digging for clams can be a fun, messy, educational ...