Andy Buckley — I discovered this one this morning on Cape Cod Today. His bio:
“Novelist, politician, photographer, game designer, master mariner, clamdigger and investigator, Andy Buckley is an eleventh-generation Cape Codder with a Renaissance flair. His Tours of Cape Cod (Schiffer Books) will be published in May 2008. Read Andy’s Monomoyick column in the Cape Cod Chronicle and visit Monomoyick on YouTube and on Panoramio. Andy can be emailed here.”
“When I bought my commercial shellfishing license towards the end of the May 31 deadline, the number of my license caught my attention. It was low. In years past, if I waited this late to fork over the $200 to the town, the number was close to six hundred. Instead this year, it was about half of that.
“It shouldn’t be too surprising. With the proliferation of aquaculture in neighboring towns and the region, as well as the discovery of a large bed of ocean quahogs in Nantucket Sound, the price of littlenecks clams has fallen from over 20 cents a piece to below ten. Often, four hours or less of work could bring close to a hundred dollars in the summer. Not a bad way to supplement income from other work, and pay the high cost of living in Chatham.
He blogs at http://www.monomoyick.com
Thanks for the kind words! I was afraid I was getting lost amongst all the other clamming blogs out there.
Last night I shucked 3-dozen ‘littlenecks’ from the Cape & was up to 11:00 P.M. making ‘stuffies’ for a cocktail party tonight in Seattle! I didn’t lose one drop of the precious nectar & could taste & smell my beloved Nantucket Sound here in the great NW!