Jace Tunnell is the Director of Community Engagement for the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Mrs. Dora J. Ryan of Santa Maria, enjoys the comforts of home as friends clam at Pismo Beach in January 1965. “Some 30 years ago I used to come here with my boys, but we didn’t have to go out far for ...

When Charlotte Russ visited Pismo Beach last November, she expected her kids to play in the sand and gather seashells. She didn’t expect them to collect 72 undersized Pismo clams — accidentally ...

Vehicles driving on the sand to and from the Oceano Dunes crushed countless Pismo clams exposed on the surface of the beach, a video taken two weeks ago shows. The audible popping and cracking sounds ...

There are a lot of different reasons why a clam might open its shell. My friend Jonathan Robinson, a marine ecologist at Washington State University, told me all about it. If we spent some time where ...

Once abundant in Pismo Beach, the Pismo clam (pictured here near the Pismo Beach Pier) vanished in the 1980s but then mysteriously reappeared in recent years. (Pat Pemberton/Courthouse News) PISMO ...

PISMO BEACH — Once a cherished local fishery, Pismo clams went missing from their namesake beach for decades. The treasured shellfish, however, are now making a steady, triumphant return. No one knows ...