Ed Warner pushes his boat off a sliver of Long Island waterfront that's been in his family since the 1800s. He is the fifth generation of Warner baymen - the locals' term for fisherman - to head out to eastern Shinnecock Bay in search of Mercenaria mercenaria, the hard clam.
"Clamming and fishing, they're in your blood," says Warner, as Hampton Bays, a coastal village in Southampton, New York, fades into the distance. "It's a lifestyle, not a job."
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