On Tuesday I went clamming at Lake Tashmoo. We kayaked and paddle boarded to the place where we were going to go clamming. When you are going to go clamming you need to nudge your feet into the sand under the water. If you feel something it is probably a quahog clam. Before you bring them home, you have to put them through a one inch gauge because it is illegal to take them if they are smaller than one inch. We caught 178 clams! We also caught some black fingered mud crabs and spider crabs. What an exciting day.
This is me holding a spider crab and some quahog clams.
These are all the quahog clams that we found.
This is me holding a black-finger mud crab. I found this black-fingered mud crab in the seaweed on a rock at the boat launch.
This is bar graph of people's guesses of the number of clams we caught. The last one is the total amount of the clams. Steve was the closest.
Quahog clams have three different names depending on their size. The smallest ones are called littlenecks, the medium ones are called cherrystones, and the big ones are called chowders. This bar graph shows how many clams we had of each size.
2 comments:
Hey Grey,
I really enjoyed reading through some of your blog. You caught so many clams on your most recent excursion! I just have a couple of questions, and thought maybe you can help me understand them:
Can you tell me how many clams of each type you caught?
And, can you tell me how many clams you caught all together?
Thanks for your help Grey!
-Steve
We found 70 littlenecks, 67 cherrystones, and 41 chowders. In total we had 178 clams.
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