The Ellsworth American previews talk about soft-shell clams by Beal Oct. 10

The Ellsworth American previewed a talk about soft-shell clams by Brian Beal, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine at Machias. Beal will speak about his decades worth of research on the clams at a public meeting of the Lamoine Conservation Commission at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Lamoine Consolidated School. Commercial clam landings in Maine have steadily declined since the mid-1980s, and reached an 80-year low in 2017. Discussion will focus on experimental field trials designed to study the underlying cause of clam declines, according to The Ellsworth American.