The coastal razor clam season this past winter and spring got off to a late start, but it turned into a memorable one for more than 300,000 diggers who turned out to seek the highly sought shellfish. ...

They fan out in groups, mostly women, plodding in rain boots across the soggy wet sands of the inlet, making the most of the low tide. Hustling along with rakes and buckets, they chat and laugh gaily.

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Now that the cold weather has arrived, it’s clam chowder season. The "Oregon Field Guide" team was at the coast earlier this year filming Newport-based clamming expert Bill Lackner for our story on ...

WATCH: Contributing reporter David Abel explains why climate change and closures are threatening Massachusetts' clam digging tradition. GLOUCESTER — For nearly a century, Neil Malick’s family hauled ...

When I first signed on as this newspaper’s outdoor writer (that were back in 1976, Sonny), phone calls asking for recreation information ran the gamut, but clamming was, and still is, a very popular ...

Razor-clam diggers can ring in the first week of spring by heading to the coast on what is expected to be another successful outing. “We have some digging dates in March and April, and it should ...

OLYMPIA — Clam diggers have one more beach they can work. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) shellfish managers confirmed Friday the reopening at Mocrocks beaches Feb. 4 followed by ...

DESPITE GOOD WEATHER and tides for two of three recent days of digging at Kalaloch, razor clam diggers still struggled to find clams. Results progressively improved during the President’s Day Weekend ...

Even when the tide started coming in and other clam diggers began to retreat, it was all I could do to leave the beach. I’d start walking away, only to spot a dimple in the sand and plunge the clam ...

BEDFORD, Va. (WDBJ) - Ships ahoy, matey! No, not to the coast but to downtown Bedford, where Clam Diggers Seafood owner Tina Gurley brings the coast to you. “I’m still getting the same fresh seafood ...

TUMACO, COLOMBIA — After a lifetime spent digging for black clams in the swamps that line the coast here, Clojilda Velasco remembers when she could count on finding 400 a day. Now she’s lucky if she ...