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land staples such as fried In this Sept. 2, 2016, file photo, a basket of clams sit in the water Women in Difficulties
as Mike Suprin, of Rollinsford, N.H., calls it a day after filling his
clams and clam chowder. basket with softshell clams at Cape Porpoise in Kennebunkport, EMERGENCY
The harvest has fallen in Maine.
recent years to the point Associated Press Police 100
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where the nationwide haul Noord 527 3200
for 2017 and '18 was the ity to reproduce more as 2 inches, it has a chance Sta. Cruz 527 2900
lowest for any two-year pe- they get older and bigger, to seed out more clams, San Nicolas 584 5000
riod in more than 60 years. McCreight said. which makes a future," he Police Tipline 11141
In Maine, the shellfish busi- "They can leave clams in said. Ambulancia 911
ness is challenged by grow- the ground. Possibly, that But Chad Coffin, a Freeport Fire Dept. 115
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ing populations of preda- would produce more seed clammer who is president
tors that eat clams and a and allow the clams to re- of the Maine Clammers As- TAXI SERVICES
declining number of clam- produce," she said, adding sociation, said it's a better Taxi Tas 587 5900
mers. that increasing the harvest idea to lower the minimum Prof. Taxi 588 0035
The Maine Legislature is is "definitely the goal." size to 1 1/2 inches. Pro- Taxi D.T.S. 587 2300
set to consider a bill that McCreight's proposal is up tecting the largest clams Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
would allow municipali- for a public hearing Tues- makes sense, he said. But A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
ties to establish their own day that clammers said when a clammer discards Women in Difficulties
minimum and maximum would be well attended a clam that is too small to TRAVEL INFO
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senting Democratic Rep. page about it. predator before it reaches Avianca 588 0059
Joyce McCreight, said the Wendell Cressey, a clam- market size, Coffin said. Jet Blue 588 2244
change would allow towns mer who lives in Harpswell Both clammers agreed the Surinam 582 7896
to set stricter parameters and digs clams in Harpswell state's harvest is in rough
than the state's minimum of and Arrowsic, said the cur- shape. Women in Difficulties
2 inches. rent statewide minimum "The biggest thing to un- CRUISES
The new limits would al- standard of 2 inches is ad- derstand is, overall, clam
low towns to protect larger equate. landings are terrible," Cof-
clams, which have the abil- "By leaving a clam until its fin said.q

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