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The most common form of harvest for clams is hand digging or picking. The common tool is an ordinary short-tined garden rake. Species dug consist of razor clams, butter clams, littleneck clams, Manila clams and varnish clams. Butter clams lay lower under the surface and a garden-type, long-handled potato fork tool is used to harvest the species. Razor clams are dug individually with a short-handled, thin bladed shovel.
