‘Like a train that can’t be stopped’: how the climate crisis threatens clammers

Soft shell clams are declining and those who depend on the state’s second-most-valuable fishery are having to adapt

Clams have long been a source of food and income for a variety of people in Maine: the Indigenous Wabanaki, commercial harvesters or anyone willing to dig in the mud. But their populations are declining steeply.

Maine produces 62% of the nation’s softshell clams. They are the second most economically valuable fishery in the state behind lobster and sustain people’s livelihoods up and down the coast.

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