Thanks for watching! Going to add both a shucking tutorial and a recipe video. Going forward each episode will have a cooking demo video to accompany it. Thanks for the feed it’s very much appreciated.

Thanks AJ!

Thanks!!

40 cents a clam sounds ridiculously high compared to what they pay in NY

Cool. I’ve yet to get a quahog pearl…..

These are all custom fabricated, and are usually pretty unique to where they are being used. Designs are vary for different bottom, current, depth etc. most harvesters guard their designs pretty closely. Going to a dock and looking at someone’s dredge is akin to looking at someone’s wife the wrong way!!!

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 many thanks for your feedback! I agree 100% with you regarding the propietary technology of the dredge- provided that I am a threat! However , I am.at the other end of the world, seeking kin individual , to learn from one another! Each dredge is custom built according to the terrain mechanics, depths, bottom type etc, and so one and so forth. Me? Wanna have a hydraulic dredge to work in Patagonia. Any feeds or info will be highly appreciated! We want to do it right. Thanks ...by no means I would look someone else's wife..- great analogu though!! SOS PLEASE! FOR REAL I AM AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CONTINENT!.

Thanks!! Glad you enjoyed it.

Well ain’t that the truth……

Thank you Peter

Thanks for watching Carlos. The dredges are all custom fabricated, there is no large scale manufacture of these. Most operators make their own but there are some local fabricators that make them. Do you have an email where I can reach you?

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 OMG. Thanks Jardar , you are a God’s sent. This is my first time in years , that I actually had a reply from a human, not a bot. Thanks before hand . My email is marinosseafood@ gmail.com .. and if I can get a hold of the fabricators, it will be great. I am in Argentinian Patagonia right now…and this is a method that we can implement. When we communicate by email, I will tell you more about…. My life revolves around the ocean and Seafood. MMMMM. Kudos , and again, many thanks !

Thanks Skyhunt glad you enjoyed it!!!!

Yes clam prices were low for a very long time. But we never know the price may go up or it may go down. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching.

I’m guessing you’ve harvested surf clams? I’d like to go out on one of those vessels.

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 I did for 12 years. Not anymore.

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Robert thanks for your comment. As I mentioned in the video siltation is an issue in Long Island Sound, and the State of Connecticut has embraced hydraulic dredging of clams as it can have a benefit when used in sapropelic substrates, and resuspending these sediments can have a restorative effect on the substrate. I’m aware of the Long Island Baymen issues with hydraulic clamming, and I’d love to come and dig with you and show your perspective. Also yes there is a transplant program in CT, but this lot is a setting lot and in this particular case these were not transplant clams. My goal is to show the many ways we harvest seafood, and this is just one several methods used to get hard clams to the table. PM me if you have the opportunity.

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 We would be happy to have you come over to Oyster Bay where hydraulic and suction dredging have really destroyed the habitat by transferring fine layers of otherwise sequestered sediment onto public clams beds where newly set larvae can be smothered. The Connecticut program is a transplant fishery where hard clams are dredged from polluted up estuary beds out into the sound. Disturbing the natural beds up river breaks down the habitat over time and production eventually suffers. Look at Connecticut's hard clam landings oh wait they don't report them. When the Captain says those water jets go into the bottom 3-4 inches does that seem plausible to you. That's not how this type of dredge works it creates a slurry forcefully mixing the bottom to about 18-inches which basically floats a layer of clams and shell out of the bottom. The fine sediment forms a bottom hugging plume with an impact zone out to 600-meters. It is all in the literature

Thanks!!!