UNC Sea Grant 



V 



November/December, 1985 



IMorth Carolina State Library fl« C 

 Raleigh QoC- 



By Steve Murray 



CLAMMING 



BY KATHY HART 



severe freeze during 

 the winter of 1976-77 

 laid thick ice over 



Ten years ago, hard clams were the harvest 



of hand clammers — those folks willing to /V 



^ 77777 77 7 Northern clam beds. 



rake or tong the bed-ridden mollusks for a seafood dealers looked south to fiu 



their orders for the bivalves, and 



- T-» 7 7 7 the hard clam began living up to its 



few cents apiece. But things changed. Continued on next page 



