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Spring Festival Folk Activity Performance

LIANYUNGANG, CHINA - JANUARY 22, 2025 - Folk artists perform a river clam dance at Lianyun Old Street in Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu province, Jan 22, 2025.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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Mixed Breeding in Suqian

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 6, 2024 - Villagers take care of a pearl clam breeding facility at Zhaozhuang Reservoir in Meihua town, Sihong County, Suqian city, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 6, 2024.

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CHINA-HAINAN-SANYA-MARINE RANCH-CREATURES (CN)

(230522) -- SANYA, May 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 17, 2023 shows a giant clam at a marine ranch in the sea area of Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province. The butterfly-shaped Wuzhizhou Island is located in Sanya's Haitang Bay and is surrounded by clean waters and stunning scenery. The marine ranch in the sea area of Wuzhizhou Island is China's first tropical marine ranch. In recent years, the marine ranch has successively carried out artificial reef installation, marine environment restoration and coral transplantation, gradually promoting the protection and restoration of the marine ecosystem. Currently, hundreds of marine species thrive in the marine ranch near the island. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)

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LDP lawmakers inspect clam imports from N. Korea

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers visit Shimonoseki Port in Yamaguchi Prefecture to inspect imports of clam from North Korea on Feb. 28.

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Expert creates Japan's 1st corbiculae institute

MATSUE, Japan - Mikio Nakamura, a retired marine scientist, has established the Japan Corbiculae Research Institute, the first of its kind in the country, in Shimane Prefecture, to restore the catch of shijimi, a small clam known in English as corbiculae. Shijimi, often found in ''miso'' bean-paste soup, are dying off in Lake Shinji in the prefecture.

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Clam farmers in Kumamoto

Clam farmers collect their catch in the outfall of the Midori River in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto on April 12, 2022.

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Clam farmers in Kumamoto

Clam farmers collect their catch in the outfall of the Midori River in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto on April 12, 2022.

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SINGAPORE-MARINE LIFE

(220228) -- SINGAPORE, Feb. 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A clam is seen at Singapore's Pulau Hantu on Feb. 27, 2022. (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua)

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LDP lawmakers inspect clam imports from N. Korea

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers visit Shimonoseki Port in Yamaguchi Prefecture to inspect imports of clam from North Korea on Feb. 28. (Kyodo)

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Throw Momma From The Train (1987)

Danny Devito Characters: Owen Film: Throw Momma From The Train (1987) Director: Danny Devito 11 December 1987 Date: 11 December 1987

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Catches of big clams falling in sea off Ibaraki Pref., eastern Japan

Korean hard clams gathered from the Kashima-nada Sea off Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, are kept in plastic containers in the prefectural town of Oarai on March 3, 2015. Catches of the large clam from the sea have decreased sharply in recent years but no reason is known. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukuoka launches experiment to farm "sandless clam" on land

Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima (2nd from R) pours "asari" clam spats into a tank as the southwestern Japan city launches an experiment to farm "sandless clam" on land on July 28, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukuoka launches experiment to farm "sandless clam" on land

A flask filled with spats of "asari" clams to be used in an experiment launched by Fukuoka City to farm "sandless clam" on land is shown to the press in the southwestern Japan city on July 28, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Characteristic Farming in Rural China

Clam farmers clean clams at Xiangyang Reservoir in Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, China, April 24, 2021.

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Clam digging in Japan

People dig for clams in Futtsu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 7, 2020. The clam digging site reopened two days earlier after being closed due to the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clam digging in Japan

People dig for clams in Futtsu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 7, 2020. The clam digging site reopened two days earlier after being closed due to the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clam digging in Japan

People dig for clams in Futtsu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 7, 2020. The clam digging site reopened two days earlier after being closed due to the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clam digging in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people digging for clams in Futtsu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 7, 2020. The clam digging site reopened two days earlier after being closed due to the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clam digging in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people digging for clams in Futtsu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 7, 2020. The clam digging site reopened two days earlier after being closed due to the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clam digging in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people digging for clams in Futtsu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 7, 2020. The clam digging site reopened two days earlier after being closed due to the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clam digging in Japan

People visit a beach in Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 5, 2020, to dig for clams -- a popular spring leisure activity in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clam digging in Japan

A family visits a beach in Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 5, 2020, to dig for clams -- a popular spring leisure activity in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clam digging in Japan

People visit a beach in Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 5, 2020, to dig for clams -- a popular spring leisure activity in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Female ama divers gather in Toba

Female ama divers release young shells of bearded clam in the sea off Toba, Mie Prefecture, during a two-day meeting on Oct. 27, 2017. About 120 female ama divers from 10 prefectures across Japan and South Korea's Busan took part in the two-day event in the city located on the northeast coast of the Shima Peninsula, central Japan, known for the fishing carried out by its female divers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Expert creates Japan's 1st corbiculae institute

MATSUE, Japan - Mikio Nakamura, a retired marine scientist, has established the Japan Corbiculae Research Institute, the first of its kind in the country, in Shimane Prefecture, to restore the catch of shijimi, a small clam known in English as corbiculae. Shijimi, often found in ''miso'' bean-paste soup, are dying off in Lake Shinji in the prefecture. (Kyodo)