PROVIDENCE – So you’re new to Rhode Island and you don’t know what a quahog is. Or maybe you’ve been here a while and you’re too embarrassed to ask. Here's everything you need to quickly get up to ...

The lead story in the print edition of the Democrat on Tuesday, Feb. 28 concerned a clam “believed to be” 214 years old. That story should have been held until April 1 because the idea that this clam ...

A Stony Brook University study shows hard shell clam restoration efforts in Shinnecock Bay have reached a new milestone. In the 1970s, two-thirds of hard clams eaten in the U.S. came from Long Island, ...

Virginia shellfish farmers continue to reign as the top hard clam producers in the country and the top oyster producers on the East Coast, experts say. A recent report from the Virginia Institute of ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Virginia shellfish farmers are leading the nation in hard clam sales. The Virginian-Pilot reports that data from the College of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine ...

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – Commercial and recreational clammers can share their thoughts on the once-abundant hard clam stocks in coastal bays during a meeting Thursday, June 30, in Cape May Court House.

Virginia shellfish farmers sold $56.6 million in clams and oysters in 2016, with hard clam sales of $38.1 million and $18.5 million in oyster sales. Hard-clam production once again leads the nation ...

According to the 2015 Virginia Shellfish Aquaculture Situation and Outlook Report issued this month, Virginia shellfish producers sold $48.3 million in clams and oysters last year. Virginia’s hard ...

Clams and other invertebrates often live in habitats with dense bacterial populations, despite lacking adaptive, lymphocyte-based immune systems. How clams resist bacterial pathogens in the ...

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