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Distribution and Value Of Clams
CLAMS—This term includes the hard clam, quahaug, or round clam; soft or long clam; razor clam or razor fish; surf, sea or hen clam, and various other species. Clams are bivalve mollusks largely used for food and bait, and are found on all our coasts. The clam product of the United States is valued at about $2,000,000 annually. While the quantity of the hard-shell variety but little exceed that of the soft-shell, the value of the former is about two and a half times that of the latter.
Razor clams are reported from Washington and Massachusetts, and surf clams from New York and New Jersey. Hard clams are reported from all the Pacific coast states, from Florida and Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico, and from all the Atlantic coast states except Maine and New Hampshire. The entire soft-clam product with the exception of a small per cent. of the total, taken in California and Oregon, is taken from the North Atlantic Coast, none being reported south of New Jersey. The clams are taken with tongs, dredges and similar apparatus.
Brooks, Lake. The Science of Fishing. Columbus, OH: A.R. Harding, 1912. Print.
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