These are clam diggers, or as they call themselves, “the peasant farmers of the sea.” Ruddy-faced from the coastal winds and hard work, they wear colorful headscarves and ordinary house ...

First off, the northern quahog is the same thing as a hard-shell clam – a bivalve mollusk found in coastal waters from Nova Scotia to Florida. While it’s known as a hard clam just about ...

A Stony Brook University study shows hard shell clam restoration efforts in Shinnecock Bay have reached a new milestone. In the 1970s, two-thirds of hard clams eaten in the U.S. came from Long ...