where have all the nice clams gone?

[fungia]

i cant find any nice clams any more. is anyone else having the same problems, or do you have a suggestion for a place to buy super nice clams?

 

[brandonberry]

I have noticed that there doesn't seem to be as many decent sized maximas around. I just figured the stores weren't ordering them. I still see a lot of croceas though. What area are you in?

 

[TheJGMProject]

I agree..I've haven't seen too many type of clams other than t. croceas. I wonder what's goign on. I'm in the SF bay area

 

[Anonymous]

Define decent sized? I've seen 3+ inch Maximas locally, some wicked purple/tear drop colors (and I'm not talking about a deep blue) too that I've never seen before. Granted I haven't really been clam shopping in quite a while, and I do live in the "Spoiled" part of the country when it comes to this stuff. But eh.

 

[brandonberry]

I'd consider 3" the low end of decent sized. I've very few that size, most being in the 1-2" category. I just have no desire to buy clams that small. I really don't even understand why clam farms sell them that small when they can grow them a little bigger and get more for them. My gueess would be that these small ones must be mostly the ones culled out.

 

[mr_X]

on the contrary, i went out of my way looking for smaller clams because i didn't want to fork over the "clams" for it. i bought a couple T. crocea for 24.95 a piece. the LFS by me had a bulk shipment of 3 different sized crocea's and the 2 larger sizes are still sitting there....all of the small ones were gone in a couple days.