BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 6, 2026
Soft-shell clams face steep challenges along the coast of Maine, where harvests have fallen by 75% since the mid-1970s amid warming waters and the arrival of invasive green crabs that eat their young. On the shores of Herrick Bay in the Hancock County town of Brooklin, once its most productive flat, testing suggests harvesters face an additional issue: pig feces washing down into a bay from Selectman David Reiley’s small farm upstream, where remediation efforts have apparently stalled for more than a year.