Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Clamming fans can pique their interest with this volume, which details the science and history surrounding the species."
* Alaska Dispatch News *
"An entertaining account, and guide, to the real fun of digging your own food in the beach. . . . Berger’s book is an excellent testimony that gathering is still an enriching, fun and tasty pursuit. Long may it be so."
-- Matthew L. Miller * Cool Green Science *
Table of ContentsChapter One | Introductions
Chapter Two | Lay of the Land: Long Beach and Ocean Shores
Chapter Three | Sacred Treaties
Chapter Four | Ecology and Anatomy
Chapter Five | Past Abundances
Chapter Six | The Era of NIX and Domoic Acid
Chapter Seven | Pumping and Counting
Chapter Eight | Licensed to Carry
Chapter Nine | Eating Them, After All, Is the Point
Chapter Ten | Will’s First Clam
CODA Practical Matters and One Speculation
Appendix One | Washington State Razor Clam
Personal Use Regulations, 1929–2015
Appendix Two | Recreational Razor Clam License
Information in Washington, 1982–1993 List of Recipes
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
