Clammers of Highlands, NJ 

Rest in peace Richie Gardner, it was nice getting to talk to you at Schupps all those mornings. Lots of clams up there in heaven. 🙏❤🐚

I grew up in that area & just wanted to give a BIG shout out to ALL the hard working clam diggers out there ! These guys with hard for there money & I LOVE JERSEY CLAMS!! Stay safe & keep them coming! THANKS👊🏻

This is actually amazing to me. I grew up in Middletown, specifically Port Monmouth and as a kid we all thought the bay was polluted. We used to see condemned signs all over the bay shore. I used to fish the flats near Earl for fluke and never knew that there were clammers working that water. Had I known I might have tried to become one of them. This was in the 70s and 80s though.

We thoroughly enjoyed this film - everything about it is outstanding. The feeling of being on that clamming boat was captured so well by the nicely framed shots, the background music and the overall pace. So many interesting revelations, such as the fact that the clammers are required to use a relatively primitive method to capture the clams. They make them work for those clams! Thanks!!

Great video as an advocated for hand harvest shellfishermen from NY i have always appreciated the New Jersey approach.

So proud of my father

Very cool. My neighbor from New Jersey sure loves her littlenecks.

Very instructive video about one kind of produce to market. My hat's off to all the hard workers.

Wow, first clammer I've ever seen use a bull rake with a hydraulic winch to lift the basket. That's really smart

I love this video, thank you for doing this John.

Great video John! Thanks for sharing.

Great video. Very enjoyable, Thank you.

Great Film, I really enjoyed it.

gotta love highlands

Very Nice Production Enjoyed It! Thank You

Good for you ! Very informative and interesting to watch. Hang in there.

I really enjoyed this.Thank you

HI from Rhodeisland I'm a retired quohogger. Loved the life so much beauty in the bay .Your using a suit case rake with ski's we used to use same gear. Still have my boat but no more bulllraking only chillaxing 😎.

live in Ohio--but love clams, oyster, and any seafood---God bless you and your catches sir thanks for the video.

What an excellent video thank you

ahh nothing like taking your first date to the clam depuration plant for a subtle "hint" of what hopefully is to come after. good times!

Very informative thanks!

Great Video..thanks

Highlands crazy willy the OG of clamming

Ive worked here before nice insight on what the clammers did out in the water i used to get them off boat and clean and other stuff not a bad place to work its just the winter is slow

That was fantastic.

Brilliant!

I remember when the clammers in Highlands pulled up the copper cable. We as kids, stole it. We had to negotiate to get it back to them before we got killed.

COOL VIDEO!!!!!

caught some today at the beach with my hands, had so much fun

Nice job on the video. I we I have watched this a few times Lol

My ex husband was a clammer for many years before the D.E.P. got into the business and added all the B.S. into clamming on the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers. My ex husband's name is Scott Smith, he was raised in Highlands till he joined the Army and then he got stationed at Sandy Hook, N. J..

loved the video,can you tell me what background music is playing love it too.

God bless the bay men.

Respect

Went Clamming in the Navesink today and got a bunch of cherry necks. We're trying to get some steamers but only found dead ones and empty shells. Dug plenty of holes on the Sandbar but no luck. Any advice? Thanks

Really respect this guy for being a lifelong professional fisherman. But in the same sentence he says they aren’t catching as much but also it’s the government’s fault changing regs so he isn’t catching enough… every old guy in jersey I’ve talked to at a bar.

Hard worker 💪💪

Used to work with Jim Harry.

What is the music in the intro

You guys ever find fossils in your clamming hauls?

I was just looking up Maine clamming techniques and found this by accident.

R.i.p Richie Gardner

Where do you sell the clams you catch?

Doug clams for 20 years in Indian River Brevard county worked under water diving the last 6 hours and 30 underwater thanks to my buddy Roy and Ray coyle they got me in the diving when I was claustrophobic started with a hookah reg that they put together for me the rakers were jealous instituted laws to make you have to get certified so then we had to go get tanks or why not use tanks and you should dive one big dive six tanks 7 to 12 ft of water 6 hours underwater all day long everyday

My ex husband used to be a Commercial Fisherman aka "A Clammer". He made great money doing that while he could.

"The government stepped in..." ugh. Cool video! Why did the signs say "no chowder"?

Did he say that people are eating these clams raw!

I would like to give you a new visor. Free!

By the volume of clams in this processing facility, I have no idea how nature keeps up. It sure looks like overfishing.

The video is great.......but do you have to play the skid row, hard times, drug addict music? It's depressing.

H L

Government is protecting the stock and environment

"The government don't let you do anything you want anymore. You have to get a license". That's the Democrat way---regulate, regulate regulate, because every license is $$$ in their coffers, but keep on voting democrat. Big brother at work.

16:50 "for some reason the state of New Jersey will not allow the clams to be sold within the state" so they're sold in New York, Va., Boston, Philadelphia...NYS has permanently closed the south shore of Staten Island for decades... a few miles away... New Jersey should just BUY BACK their licenses and let these guys retire instead of poisoning people in other states.