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This weekend I got out clamming for the first time this year, and I was very lucky to find my second ever quahog pearl on the trip! Sadly, the shell was not visibly warped on the outside (as many pearl-bearing quahogs are) so I boiled the clam, which caused a slight hairline crack to form on its...

I was wondering if anyone here might know a reason why blue mussels in certain locations would have drastically higher incidences of pearls than in other populations. I have found that at a particular beach nearly every blue mussel I gather will contain at least one small pearl (with some being...