The New Yorker, July 29, 1939 P. 28
Visit to the Long Island bay clam bed to watch the clamming. The most abundant beds are in Great South Bay and are owned by the towns of Islip and Babylon. Right after dawn every weekday about seventy licenced clammers from these towns go out in the Bay and work over the sides of their anchored boats, using long-handled tongs and rakes to pick up the clams. At noon, the buy-boats of two clam shipping firms--Still & Clock of Bay Shore, and G. Vander Borgh & Son of Sayville buy their catches for the day. Later they are cleaned and shipped to the various markets. Describes the various kinds of clams--hard-shell and cherrysone and some of the clammers. Fulton Fish Market dealers buy most of them..
