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 ...

A pandemic-era crush of new interest in clamming on the California coast and widespread adoption of simple hydraulic pumps that allow people to harvest the shellfish faster and in greater numbers has ...

More than half-a-million people will converge along the Washington coast during the fall, winter and spring in search of a bountiful population of razor clams. On days when digging is open, thousands ...

The switch to stormy fall weather did little to dampen the enthusiasm and success rates for razor clam diggers over the first two weekend openings of the 2021-22 season. Incessant rain and driving ...

OLYMPIA — Razor clam diggers can look forward to more digging on coastal beaches beginning Monday, Jan. 22, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) coastal shellfish managers confirmed ...

Razor clams are tasty, and gathering them involves an outing on the beach. Each clammer must dig his own clams and keep them in a separate container. (Terry Otto/For The Columbian) OLYMPIA — ...