Quahogs are indigenous to Rhode Island and the key to two of the ... so there’s no bad time to order them, but Quahog Week in May is a particularly fun time to dig in, when dozens of local ...

It will have eight species commonly caught in Rhode Island waters: black sea bass, summer flounder (fluke), American lobster, quahog, longfin squid, Jonah crab, scup (porgy), and channeled whelk.

Here are the week's top reads on providencejournal.com: The hard-shell clam known in Rhode Island as the quahog is at the very heart of Ocean State culture. But the beloved bivalve is in crisis in ...