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Lubec gearing up to try clam seeding

It could take up to five years before any clams reach harvestable size, but the promise of higher yields and stronger ...
Most people think of clams as a gooey blob inside of a two-piece shell, but there’s actually a lot more going on inside that shell that you might come to expect. While it’s true that a clam is rather ...
Seashell enthusiast? There's quite the sight to behold on the Cape Lookout National Seashore. This past weekend, Cape Lookout National Seashore's Facebook page shared some impressive specimens they ...
AMES, Iowa – Two Iowa State University graduate students are just back from the Gulf of Maine with another big catch of clam shells. Shelly Griffin and Madelyn Mette recently boarded a lobster boat, ...
Sea otters are surprisingly good at using tools. If they come across a particularly tough clam shell and they are desperate ...
Dr. Brian Beal, Director of Research for the University of Maine at Machais Downeast Institute, the easternmost marine research laboratory in the entire United States, gave a talk a week or so ago up ...
There are a lot of different reasons why a clam might open its shell. My friend Jonathan Robinson, a marine ecologist at Washington State University, told me all about it. If we spent some time where ...
My clam linguine rule goes like this: If it's on the menu, I order it. The same goes for its Neapolitan progenitor, pasta alle vongole - pasta with clams. The classic way to prepare and serve this ...