Washington clammers hit the beaches for the first digs of the new season recently, which ran from Sept. 29 through Oct. 2. Diggers found good success during the first open tides. Washington Department ...

"I got one," said Nathan Coleman, a video journalist at The Weather Network. "I finally found my first clam and it's just big enough." Clam digging is a beloved pastime in Prince Edward Island and for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cook Inlet razor clams await processing after being dug out of the sand. (Jenny Neyman/KDLL) Sport and personal-use harvest of razor clams will open this summer on the east side of Cook Inlet for the ...

Usually well known for what they add to chowder or linguine, the clam is now inspiring robotics research. Scientists at MIT are studying the digging capabilities of the razor clam to figure out how to ...

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.