On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:50:02 -0500, S Viemeister
> wrote:

> On 1/30/2015 1:02 PM, sf wrote:
> >
> > Ophelia... it just occurred to me that you can probably find cockles
> > in Scotland and cockle is a type of clam! We use little necks for our
> > clam chowder, you can use cockles. They're smaller than Little
> > Necks, that's all. They are roughly the size of a Manila clam.
> > Manilas are 20-30/lb. Cockles from New Zealand's North Island are
> > 20-25 per pound. I looked but didn't find much about Scottish cockles
> > other than it looks like they are not a big commercial product
> > (somebody needs to fix that to start growing the economy) and they are
> > mostly poached for sale elsewhere.
> >
> Cockles were a basic food in coastal areas of Scotland since prehistoric
> times - but in many areas in the latter part of the last century,
> foreign fishing boats came in and scraped up vast quantities of them,
> not leaving enough for natural regeneration.
>
> When I was a child, I remember going down at low tide with a rake, and
> filling my bucket with them. But after the Spanish fishing fleet invaded
> the Kyle there there were no more cockles to be found
> There have been a few attempts to 'reseed' the area, and eventually
> there may be enough for local people to once again harvest them.

Someone needs to start farming them, which will mean local jobs.

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