Choosing fresh seafood: How to tell if a Littleneck Clam is healthy or dead

Fresh shellfish should be alive when cooked or flash-frozen after harvest and thawed just before cooking. But thawed shellfish is not exactly fresh shellfish.

Littleneck clams are a popular type of hard clam ("quahog" in the Narragansett language of eastern Massachusetts), and are often farm-raised.

Do you know how to tell if a Littleneck clam is alive and healthy, and thus safe to eat?

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