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.

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 ...

When the sun first appears over the water at Greenwich Point, Ken Landsfeld heads to the beach. Dressed in waders, boots, gloves and a warm flannel shirt, and carrying a galvanized wire clam basket ...

Day passes and annual permits can be purchased at the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. Each person digging must have their own container for collecting shellfish and their own permit. Daily ...

If clamming and crabbing isn't yet a summer tradition for your family, where to start might seem daunting. Being drawn in by the prospect of a fresh and tasty meal is just the beginning. Before you ...

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 ...

BRINNON — The low number of clams on the Point Whitney tidelands means the area won’t be opened for sport clamming in March. But a site just south of it could open in March, a month earlier than usual ...

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 ...