Upper Penobscot Bay
Softshell Clam Survey 1966-1967
Softshell Clam Survey 1966-1967
Results: 96,000 bushels of harvestable clams. Value to digger: $1,876,000 Community multiplier value: $5,216,400. Detailed results below.
SUMMARY In 1966, the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration surveyed about 90 percent of upper Penobscot Bay's shores for soft-shell clams. (Unsurveyed areas were polluted industrial sites & other non-clam habitat.)
Introduction ** Participanbts ** Medthods
RESULTS:* Northport * Belfast * Searsport * Stockton Springs * Penobscot * Castine * Islesboro
* Total 66-67 standing crops & value.
Top clam areas: Stockton Springs and Searsport, followed by Northport and Belfast.
The total harvestable softshell clam resource of the upper bay for 1966 was estimated at 96,000 bushels, value to diggers: $1,876,000 and a community multiplier value of $5,216,400.
The clam survey was part of the study: "Pollution of the Navigable Waters of the Penobscot River & Upper Penobscot Bay in the State of Maine."
* Testimony by Lobsterman Frederick P. Young
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