clam beds
Bivalve harvesting areas
Clam beds are areas of shallow coastal water or tidal flats where clams live and can be harvested.
The term treats the seafloor like a garden bed where shellfish grow: The clam beds were closed due to red tide.
Clammers work the beds at low tide, digging or raking to collect the buried mollusks.
- tidal flatsCoastline exposed at low water
- bivalvesTwo-shelled mollusks
- clammingGathering bivalves from sand
- intertidal zoneShore covered and uncovered daily
- fisheriesFish-harvesting operations
cockles · estuary · salt water · aquaculture · shucking · littleneck · substrate · sediment · chowder · seafood boil · sustainability · larval stages · mollusks · siphons · razor clams · filter feeders · sandy · mussels
- aquaculturefish farming, fish farms, aquaculture, salmon farming, shrimp farming
- intertidal zonetide pool, tide pools, rock pool, rockpool, rockpools
- shellfishingclams, crabs, lobsters, mussels, scallops
- tidal flatsmudflat, mudflats, tidal flats, silt, mud
- Seacoast NHPortsmouth, seacoast, Hampton, Newcastle, New Castle
- Jersey ShoreAtlantic City, Asbury Park, Avalon, Ocean City, Sandy Hook
clam bedsoyster reefs
Accumulated shellfish formations underwater
oyster bars · coral reefs · open ocean · mussel beds · kelp forests
clam bedsmountain streams
Small highland watercourses
freshwater lakes · surface waters · water column · dry land · desert