Freeport Shellfish Conservation

Warming waters are affecting clams and the people who harvest them.

Clammers Dig Through The Pandemic, But Shellfish Are Fewer More New Englanders have dug in the tidal mudflats during the last year, but they’re finding fewer clams. In the largest clam producing state of Maine, fishermen produced their lowest haul in more than 90 years at a little more than 1.3 million pounds, citing warming oceans and clam-eating predato...

wonderful effort by Ocean to Plate to Ocean, a pilot project by the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership and Maine Coastal Program.

Oyster shell recycling aimed at reducing Casco Bay acidification Discarded shells are collected twice weekly from 10 Portland restaurants for eventual reintegration into the bay.

Do you know your local clams?

Shellfish Shellfish are bivalve mollusks, which have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell in two hinged parts. Clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops are all types of shellfish. Clams live in the mud, sand and gravel intertidal area found along coastal regions. Species harvested in