Information about Clam Digging
Clam digging is a common means of harvesting clams from below the surface of the tidal mud flats where they live. It is done both recreationally (for enjoyment or as a source of food) and commercially (as a source of income). Commercial digging is colloquially referred to as clamming, and is done by a clammer.
Amateur clam digging is often done using a straight long-handled spading fork or a spading shovel.
Commercial clamming for the larger surf and cohog clams (soup clams) is primarily done offshore, via mechanical dredging. To harvest cultivated clam beds, aquaculturalists often use a much smaller version (hand pulled) of the offshore dredge. Another form of commercial clamming is done from a flat decked boat using a clamrake with a telescopic handle. The head of these rakes have long tines attached to a "basket-like" cage in which the clams are collected.
In the Minas Basin area of Nova Scotia digging for soft-shelled clams is usually done with a clam hack, a spading fork with its short handle bent perpendicularly away from the fork's head. A digger typically uses the hack by grasping the spine of the prongs in one hand and the handle of the fork in the other to push the hack down into the mud, clay, or sand and then pull it up and towards him/herself. This digging action opens up the soil to expose the clams. Those clams legally long enough (44 mm in Nova Scotia) are then taken by hand and put into a peck-size (9 litre) bucket used for measuring the volume of clams collected.
Clam digging in Maine is done using a "clam hoe" (a pitchfork with the handle cut off about 18" from the tines then bent about 70 degrees) and a "roller" (a half? bushel basket built using wood lathes or wire mesh) and hip waders (boot that extend up to the top of the legs).
Another popular method for bay clamming is the use of "tongs" from a boat. These devices function like the scissor-handled posthole diggers with the exception that you contract or squeeze the tongs moving the teeth thru the bottom and feeling the ping of the clams going in the basket, very unlike the expanding motion of a post hole digger, used for digging fence post holes. Tongs appear very much like two clamrakes with teeth hinged like scissors.
In the USA, "clam diggers" is one of several possible names for shorter pants or three quarter pants.
Amateur clam digging is often done using a straight long-handled spading fork or a spading shovel.
Commercial clamming for the larger surf and cohog clams (soup clams) is primarily done offshore, via mechanical dredging. To harvest cultivated clam beds, aquaculturalists often use a much smaller version (hand pulled) of the offshore dredge. Another form of commercial clamming is done from a flat decked boat using a clamrake with a telescopic handle. The head of these rakes have long tines attached to a "basket-like" cage in which the clams are collected.
In the Minas Basin area of Nova Scotia digging for soft-shelled clams is usually done with a clam hack, a spading fork with its short handle bent perpendicularly away from the fork's head. A digger typically uses the hack by grasping the spine of the prongs in one hand and the handle of the fork in the other to push the hack down into the mud, clay, or sand and then pull it up and towards him/herself. This digging action opens up the soil to expose the clams. Those clams legally long enough (44 mm in Nova Scotia) are then taken by hand and put into a peck-size (9 litre) bucket used for measuring the volume of clams collected.
Clam digging in Maine is done using a "clam hoe" (a pitchfork with the handle cut off about 18" from the tines then bent about 70 degrees) and a "roller" (a half? bushel basket built using wood lathes or wire mesh) and hip waders (boot that extend up to the top of the legs).
Another popular method for bay clamming is the use of "tongs" from a boat. These devices function like the scissor-handled posthole diggers with the exception that you contract or squeeze the tongs moving the teeth thru the bottom and feeling the ping of the clams going in the basket, very unlike the expanding motion of a post hole digger, used for digging fence post holes. Tongs appear very much like two clamrakes with teeth hinged like scissors.
In the USA, "clam diggers" is one of several possible names for shorter pants or three quarter pants.
CLaMS (Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere) is a modular chemistry transport model (CTM) system developed at Research Centre Jülich, Germany.
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Mudflats are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by the tides or rivers, sea and oceans. They are found in sheltered areas such as bays, bayous, lagoons, and estuaries.
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Recreation or fun is the use of time in a manner designed for therapeutic refreshment of one's body or mind. While leisure is more likely a form of entertainment or rest, recreation is active for the participant but in a refreshing and diverting manner.
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Commerce is a division of trade or production which deals with the exchange of goods and services from producer to final consumer. It comprises the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, information or money between two or more entities.
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A colloquialism is an expression not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguism. Colloquialisms can include words (such as "y'all", "gonna", "deadly" or "grouty"), phrases (such as "ain't nothin'" and " dead as a doornail "), or sometimes even an entire aphorism (" There's more
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shovel is a tool for lifting and moving loose material such as coal, gravel, snow, soil, or sand and is an extremely common tool which is used extensively in agriculture, construction and gardening.
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Minas Basin is an inlet of the Bay of Fundy located in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Nova Scotia
Nouvelle-Écosse, Alba Nuadh
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin)
"One defends and the other conquers"
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Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin)
"One defends and the other conquers"
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M. arenaria
Binomial name
Mya arenaria
Soft-shell clams, Mya arenaria, popularly called "steamers", "softshells", "longnecks" or "Ipswich clams", are clams that live buried in tidal
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Binomial name
Mya arenaria
Soft-shell clams, Mya arenaria, popularly called "steamers", "softshells", "longnecks" or "Ipswich clams", are clams that live buried in tidal
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A spading fork (sometimes called a garden fork or graip) is a gardening implement, with a handle and several short, thick prongs. It is used for loosening and lifting soil in a garden or farm and is used similarly to a spade.
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peck is an Imperial and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 8 dry quarts, or 16 dry pints. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel.
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Three quarter pants, pedal pushers, shants, shpants, clam diggers, flood pants or jams are commonly used expressions to mean pants that are longer than shorts but are not as long as pants.
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