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area. This would be the dockside landing value of the 

 bushel. Then there is the expanded value of bushel or 

 that represented by the flow of money and jobs generated 

 by people employed in processing and marketing the product. 

 The expanded value runs from five to ten times the dock- 

 side value. 



The pollution of shellfish beds in Raritan Bay has resulted, there- 

 fore, in the following: 



(1) loss of employment and loss of an industry 



(2) an epidemic of hepatitis 



(3) loss of recreational shellfish harvest 



(4) loss of $8.5 million annually and five to ten times 

 this amount if the expanded value is used. 



From 1948 to 1960 Raritan Bay shellfish reaching the New York City 

 market of 20,000 to 30,000 bushels a year brought $6.00 per bushel 

 or $120,000 to $180,000 annual dockside value. A survey by the 

 Northeast Shellfish Sanitation Research Center (circa 1965) indic- 

 ated a standing crop of some 5,000,000 bushels of clams which agrees 

 with the estimate made above. 



Penobscot Bay, Maine 



The "Report on Pollution—Navigable Waters of the Penobscot River 

 and Upper Penobscot Bay in Maine", Merrimack River Project- 

 Northeast Region, Boston, Masschusetts, February 1967, Federal 



