You're probably most familiar with hard-shell clams, the ones that open to reveal soft pieces of clam meat on the inside. But have you heard of soft-shell clams? You can eat soft shell-clams with ...

GLOUCESTER — For nearly a century, Neil Malick’s family hauled bushels of soft-shell clams from the mudflats around Boston Harbor to the state’s purification plant on Plum Island ...

The state refers to green crabs as Maine’s “most destructive and costly invader.” The species arrived to Maine shores in the ...

The species arrived to Maine shores in the mid-1800s in ballast water from European ships and soon began damaging soft-shell clams and the local marine habitat through their predation.