WATCH: Contributing reporter David Abel explains why climate change and closures are threatening Massachusetts' clam digging tradition. GLOUCESTER — For nearly a century, Neil Malick’s family hauled ...

They fan out in groups, mostly women, plodding in rain boots across the soggy wet sands of the inlet, making the most of the low tide. Hustling along with rakes and buckets, they chat and laugh gaily.

Now that the cold weather has arrived, it’s clam chowder season. The "Oregon Field Guide" team was at the coast earlier this year filming Newport-based clamming expert Bill Lackner for our story on ...

These are the clam diggers of Lourizan. They call themselves, "the peasant farmers of the sea." They work about three hours a day over 15 or 16 days a month, earning about $107 a shift. Clam ...

SUCCULENT BIVALVE ENTHUSIASTS on the North Olympic Peninsula understand that clamming is a labor of love. Most tasks in this wild land require an extra thick layer of gumption, owing primarily to the ...

Razor clams reside in the sweet spot between disparate worlds. By burrowing in the tidal zone of coastal beaches, the mouth watering mollusks grow fat by filtering the detritus that washes around them ...

Jason Stricker was stunned at what his shovel turned up — a razor clam filling the palm of his hand. “There were three or four of them that big,” he said. “All of six inches. Two clams and a normal ...

THIS MUST BE the best autumn weather in years. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, it did with the opening of razor clam season! If you don’t know what a razor clam is, you are ...