Historically low periwinkle harvests by commercial fishermen (averaging about 118,000 pounds per year) suddenly spiked in 1989 to 3.8 million pounds, then crashed to a level after 1993 of averaging about 616,000 pounds. The decade ending 2016 rebounded to an average of 852,041. In a narrow range of 6 to 8 cents a pound from 1950…
Harvesting Northern Quahogs by commercial fishermen has been a rocky business over the period for which data is available. (Gaps are related to quota regulations to protect the resource.) Otherwise known as “hard clams,” these shellfish are sometimes completely absent from the harvest rolls, sometimes overflowing. Until the year 2001, the price per pound only…
Mahogany Quahog (also known as “mahogany clams” or “hardshell clams”) harvests by commercial fishermen, in recent times, peaked in 1986. A drop in the mid-1990s recovered for about ten years, then dipped to about $2.5 million in recent years. Since the early 1990s, the price per pound has averaged about $.40, ranging from $.30 to…