Quahogs

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by wdmso

And in the Taunton River there’s a guy dredging 5 days a week for quahogs since April and they have been doing it for years .. they get sent to the cape for recreational diggers supposedly

Found this. Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Town of Westport invites sealed bids from qualified vendors for specific work to dredge 5,000 bushels of contaminated quahogs from the Taunton River.

https://www.bidnetdirect.com/public/...69091/abstract

The river is the cleanest it’s been in decades I would love to see some recent test samples

Transfer stock. The Cape towns buy them to augment the local stock. They're put in upwellers to purge the toxins from the Taunton River mud. They're usually planted in beds that are closed during summer. I have a friend who worked on Bourne's shellfish propagation program for many years. IIRC he said that the state has to certify the water before the beds can be reopened in the fall.

The way they plant the 'hawgs is funny. They're piled on culling boards from the baskets and just dumped overboard. So if you know where the boat dumped them, or find it by accident, you've hit the mother lode.

Seriously, I have filled a peck limit in less than 10 minutes when those beds first opened. 5 or 6 pulls of the rake, and done. It was like fishing in a hatchery.