Truro
The clam flats at Truro are confined principally to the Pamet River. At the mouth of this river near the head of the harbor bar is a sand flat comprising several acres, where the bulk of the clams are produced. In South Truro, Stony Bar and other similar patches of rocky beach are fairly well bedded with clams. Scattering clams are found over the shifting bars which skirt the main land on the bay side, but nowhere are clams sufficiently abundant to warrant any serious attempt at exportation. Fifteen to twenty years ago clams were everywhere much more abundant in this region than now, and in those days some market digging was carried on. At present the needs of the home market are with difficulty supplied from the local production, and 100 bushels per year would cover all clams dug both for food and bait. No effort has at any time been made by the town authorities to increase the industry, though the clam fishery, at least in the sheltered coves of Pamet River, is not without possibilities of development.
Summary of Industry.
| Number of men, | 1 |
| Capital invested, | $2 |
| Production, 1907:— | |
| Bushels, | 50 |
| Value, | $60 |
| Total area (acres):— | |
| Sand, | 50 |
| Mud, | — |
| Gravel, | — |
| Mussels and eel grass, | — |
| Total, | 50 |
| Productive area (acres):— | |
| Good clamming, | 1 |
| Scattering clams, | 2 |
| Barren area possibly productive (acres), | 47 |
| Waste barren area (acres), | — |
| Possible normal production, | $5,000 |