Media Coverage
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Check out media coverage of the Working Group, our partners, and the shellfish industry in general.
The Curse of the Green Crab
The Casco Bay Regional Shellfish Working Group and Casco Bay Estuary Partnership returned to the Yarmouth Clam Festival in July 2024 after our 2023 debut to highlight the clam fishery that is the namesake for the event. In fitting with the parade theme of ‘Pop Culture Phenomenon’, the giant clam hod was retrofitted to emulate the Black Pearl ship from the Pirates of Caribbean. Read our letter to the editor in the Portland Press Herald.
Constructing the mast for the Black Pearl.
Yarmouth Clam Festival Parade, July 19, 2024
Showcasing Clamming again at the Yarmouth Clam Festival
“Aligning with the parade’s theme, ‘People in Your Neighborhood,’ we encourage festival goers to learn about the clammers in their community.”
Casco Bay Regional Shellfish Working Group members and Casco Bay Estuary Partnership staff walk in the Clam Festival parade on July 21, 2023.
Maine’s Real Estate Boom and Intertidal Access
Bangor Daily News, July 2022
Launch of the Community Intertidal Data Portal
“It will [...] assist communities along the bay in exchanging information, fostering more nuanced understandings of Casco Bay’s complex, interwoven intertidal [...] ecosystem.”
Bangor Daily News, June 2022
Access to the Intertidal
“The [Preserving Access to the Intertidal] guide [...] is an incredibly rich document that is helpful for anyone living in a coastal town in improving your understanding of how these intersections between land and water and between different values and types of uses in the intertidal impact the many resources and people who live here.”
The Times Record, May 2022
Working Waterfronts Report
“High prices can prohibit commercial fishermen from buying homes in working waterfront communities, which... in some cases prohibits them from harvesting there at all. According to the report, many municipalities have a residency requirement for clamming licenses, meaning clammers have to live in the city or town in order to access the flats.”
The Press Herald, December 2021
Shellfish Focus Day Events 2021
In place of the in-person Shellfish Focus Day at the Maine Fishermen’s Forum, a team of volunteers organized a three-event series of webinars and radio shows between February and April. The topics ranged from municipal conservation of management of mudflats, to collecting knowledge through surveys, monitoring and local experience, as well as the seafood supply chain. Recordings of all three webinars are available on the Maine Clamming YouTube Channel.
Shellfish Focus Day 1: Shellfish Harvesting for the Future Recording available on the Coastal Conversations radio program’s web page, aired on February 26, 2021.
Shellfish Focus Day 2: What’s Changing on the Mudflats? Recording available on the Coastal Conversations radio program’s web page, aired on March 26, 2021.
Shellfish Focus Day 3: From the mud to your plate, shellfish markets and the seafood supply chain. Recording available on the Coastal Conversations radio program’s web page, aired on April 23, 2021.
Shellfish Database Survey
The Forecaster, February 2021
The Press Herald, January 2021
The Times Record, Intertidal Column, February 2021
Formation of the Working Group
The Southern Forecaster, August 2019
The Northern Forecaster, August 2019
The Times Record, Intertidal Column, December 2019
Shellfishing in a Pandemic
Associated Press, September 2020
Shellfish Industry Coverage
Associated Press, June 2018
Down East Magazine, November 2019
The Times Record, February 2020
NBC, Associated Press, November 2018
Earthwhile, February 2021
Bangor Daily News, April 2015
Banner Image from Christine Stack Photography.