Clammers digging through pandemic, but shellfish are fewer
by Patrick Whittle, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 17, 2021 8:38 am EDT
Last Updated Apr 17, 2021 at 8:44 am EDT
FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2020 file photo, clamdigger Mike Soule hauls bags of clams on a sled across a mudflat in Freeport, Maine. More New Englanders have dug in the tidal mudflats during the last year, but they re finding fewer clams. The coronavirus pandemic has inspired more people in the Northeastern states to dig for the soft-shell clams. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
PORTLAND, Maine Chad Coffin has spent the coronavirus pandemic much as he has the previous several decades: on the mudflats of Maine, digging for the clams that draw tourists to seafood shacks around New England.
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