Freeport Shellfish Conservation

05/30/2021

Friends of Casco Bay is truly a friend to our bay. Tracking water temps and acidity are now possible through multiple stations.

The continuous monitoring stations will compile data from Cundys Harbor in Harpswell and Portland Harbor.

05/30/2021

Maine considers harvest rules to help manage the dwindling supply of wild clams.

A push to try to save the state's clamming industry is dividing harvesters, conservationists and scientists who question whether proposed new measures will help.

05/30/2021

Warming waters are affecting clams and the people who harvest them.

More New Englanders have dug in the tidal mudflats during the last year, but they’re finding fewer clams. In the largest clam producing state of Maine, fishermen produced their lowest haul in more than 90 years at a little more than 1.3 million pounds, citing warming oceans and clam-eating predato...

08/21/2019

Working together to address local shellfishing issues.

Freeport, Brunswick, Harpswell, Scarborough and Yarmouth have pledged support for the group that plans to convene in the fall.

08/05/2019

wonderful effort by Ocean to Plate to Ocean, a pilot project by the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership and Maine Coastal Program.

Discarded shells are collected twice weekly from 10 Portland restaurants for eventual reintegration into the bay.

07/31/2019

Back-breaking work

07/23/2019

A steamer of a Clamfest this year! 🥵 So much fun for everyone.

OK, so you’re at the Yarmouth Clam Festival and you’ve seen Barry Williams and gotten your “Brady Bunch” fix all taken care of. Now what? There are plenty of things to do at this year’s festival besides seeing Williams, also known as Greg Brady. The list is about as long as the line of cha...

07/22/2019

Do you know your local clams?

Shellfish are bivalve mollusks, which have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell in two hinged parts. Clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops are all types of shellfish. Clams live in the mud, sand and gravel intertidal area found along coastal regions. Species harvested in

07/21/2019

love these

Portraits of clamming found at the Clam Festival.

07/18/2019

Tricky business regulating our waters and aquaculture.

BRUNSWICK — The Department of Marine Resources rejected a petition to change the criteria for aquaculture lease applications on the basis that the request was "not realistic," "arbitrary" and could have a "perverse outcome" for some applicants. Meanwhile, the company pitching a 40-acre oyster aqua...

07/06/2019

Help wanted

Volunteers will help gather data about soft-shell clams and other shellfish.