Hingham
Hingham has an area of tidal flats comprising nearly 650 acres. The characteristic soil is of two kinds: a marginal strip of pebbly beach extending the full length of the shore, and the broad flats of Hingham harbor and Weir River, with their extensive areas of mud, eel grass and mussels. The clamming territory is confined for the most part to this narrow strip fringing the shore, though scattering clams are found in diminished numbers on the mud flats.
The shellfish industry of the town consists mostly in procuring clams, mussels and cockles for bait. Clams are dug to some extent for home consumption and for the hotels at Nantasket; but the fishery is carried on in a desultory manner by a few men who dig when other work fails, and who do not wholly depend on clamming for a livelihood.
Summary of Industry.
| Number of men, | — |
| Capital invested, | — |
| Production, 1907:— | |
| Bushels,. | 250 |
| Value, | $250 |
| Total area (acres):— | |
| Sand, | 25 |
| Mud, | 450 |
| Gravel, | 100 |
| Mussels and eel grass, | 75 |
| Total, | 650 |
| Productive area (acres):— | |
| Good clamming, | — |
| Scattering clams, | 100 |
| Barren area possibly productive (acres), | — |
| Waste barren area (acres), | 550 |
| Possible normal production, | $20,000 |