Coastal access and working waterfronts are being lost in Maine. The Coastal Access Strategy Exchange (CASE) is a group of people who work and engage in and with wild shellfish fisheries and land conservation in Maine. CASE gathers to share information, knowledge, and strategies to protect, preserve, and expand coastal access for wild shellfish harvesters. This group of harvesters, land trust staff, municipal staff, consultants, nonprofit staff, researchers, attorneys, volunteers, and policy-makers collaborate to share and brainstorm outreach, engagement, and policy strategies for different audiences. We work to ensure that coastal access and working waterfront efforts across the state are in conversation with each other. At the core, CASE supports municipal and state managers with extra capacity to form and enact creative solutions to protect, preserve, and expand access to intertidal mudflats and the working waterfront.