No Diggers No Clams
Maine produces more clams than any other, and state regulators there say clam harvesters collected a little more than 1.4 million pounds last year. That’s the lowest total since 1930, and less than half a typical haul in the early- and mid-1980s.
The number of harvesters digging for them in Maine has slipped to about 1,600 in Maine. It was more than 2,000 as recently as 2015. Maine’s diminished harvest is partially caused by clamming closures necessitated by algal blooms that render them unsafe to eat.
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