Black Clam (Arctica islandica)
Common name: mahogany clam, black clam
Scientific name: Arctica islandica
Locations: sub-tidal on mud bottoms
Seasonality: available year round
Colors: brown - black color with white on umbo
Size: 1" - 3"
Collected: by deepwater dredge
Quantity: sold by the each
Common name: mahogany clam, black clam
Scientific name: Arctica islandica
Locations: sub-tidal on mud bottoms
Seasonality: available year round
Colors: brown - black color with white on umbo
Size: 1" - 3"
Collected: by deepwater dredge
Quantity: sold by the each
Common name: mahogany clam, black clam
Scientific name: Arctica islandica
Locations: sub-tidal on mud bottoms
Seasonality: available year round
Colors: brown - black color with white on umbo
Size: 1" - 3"
Collected: by deepwater dredge
Quantity: sold by the each
A sack of black clams.
Tidepool Tim says, “This is the local version of a quahog - our cold water, hard-shelled clam. The shells are a rich brown or black in color. In Maine, we have a large mahogany clam fishing industry with many boats. Each boat lands thousands of lbs. of these clams each day. They are fished with a heavy steel-toothed dredge that is able to pull these clams up out of the sandy mud bottoms in which they reside.”
