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Researchers say a highly aggressive strain is migrating south from the Canadian Maritimes. Shellfish beware.

The Harraseeket River recedes slowly but steadily around Chad Coffin’s metal skiff, until the boat is beached on a partly exposed mudflat. Coffin and his daughter, Bailey Pennell, are already out of the skiff, rakes in hand and rubber boots sinking...

Warming weather has kept clam predators active and a slow response to possible solutions has led to frustrations.

Restaurants are shelling out more for clams — making Flo’s Clam Shack shuck its namesake dish Caroline Anders © Yanni Rozes/Yanni Rozes Rhode Island restaurant Flo's Clam Shack is temporarily taking fried clams off its menu. (Yanni Rozes) Though a sign outside proclaims the spot is “famous for clams,” Flo’s Clam Shack is taking a hiatus from hawking fried steamers. Popular Searches The restaurant has been shelling out the crispy, salty dish for decades. But market price for soft-shell clams is just too high right now, owner Komes Rozes said. The price of t...

Clammers digging through pandemic, but shellfish are fewer On Sept. 3, 2020, 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. Robert F. Bukaty / AP file Published: 4/19/2021 2:00:04 PM 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 tour...