1.   And try to creep quietly toward clam beds without causing the giant bivalves to spit streams of water in your direction.

2.   As we walk on the beach, our footsteps force little gushers of water from the holes of clam beds.

3.   Oiled waters poisoned clam beds and no longer yielded a bounty of food.

4.   The clammers themselves have formed a management advisory board to come up with a plan to protect and manage the clam beds.

5.   We are skirting small sedge islands, called hummocks, past lobster buoys and clam beds, sometimes in just a few inches of water.