Butter clams, important to many Alaskans’ diets, are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information that ...

Heavier rains are triggering regulatory pauses on harvesting oysters and clams—and putting fishermen out of work.

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A warning was issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about some oysters and clams that may be contaminated with paralytic shellfish toxins. These contaminated shellfish and clams were ...

Friends of the Bay partners with Oyster Bay to seed clams, aiming to restore shellfish populations and improve water quality ...

Kyle Pepperman of the Downeast Institute is expected to attend the next Shellfish Committee meeting to discuss clam ecology, ...

Thanks to dramatic improvements in water quality, some towns will soon be opening up the harbor for shellfish harvesting and ...

Oysters and clams are two very popular edible mollusks or bivalves. Although they have many similarities between them, there are enough differences so that the average diner can tell which is which.