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Podcast: Maine Things Considered
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After Last Year's Poor Harvest, Mainers Work To Help Clam Fisheries Bounce Back
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:06:39
Publish Date: 2019-08-08 16:14:22
Description: Last year Maine's harvest of soft-shell clams was one of the worst in many decades, down to around 7 million pounds. That's due in part to closures of polluted flats, and predation by the invasive green crab. But harvesters and other observers say the fishery can bounce back — and new efforts to better protect the resource are emerging in more than a dozen coastal towns.
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