Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X As concerned neighbors organize to prevent commercial clam digging in sleepy Short Beach cove, a ...

The DMR earlier this month changed the classification of this part of the York River from “prohibited” to the more lenient “restricted.” This means that it is possible to harvest in this area, but ...

Washington’s prized razor-clam and commercial crab seasons remain shut down as state shellfish officials continue to find domoic acid, a neurotoxin, present in crab and clam tissues. Tests of crab at ...

A 2017 file photo of razor clams. Oregon has reopened razor clam harvesting from the Yachats River up to the Washington state border, but other shellfish harvesting remains restricted. Courtesy of ...

Babylon has become the first town on the Great South Bay to pass new rules that limit commercial clamming - and Islip could soon follow. Opposed by some baymen as unfair and unnecessary, the measures ...

The demise of Long Island's commercial hard clam industry has been well documented, but enough of the tasty, hard-shell bivalves remain to ensure that recreational shellfishing fans can have fun ...

There are still some antiquated laws on the books in New Jersey, but few are ever still enforced. But there is one exception in the bays and marshes of the Jersey Shore. Some may not know that it is ...

I’m guessing it was probably a fisherman who first coined the phrase about “opening up a can of worms.” After all, who but a fisherman would put worms in a can in the first place? And who but a ...

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