Freeport clam wholesaler closing
S&S Seafood, a Freeport-based clam wholesaler, is closing due to its owner moving to Florida.
Owner Garrett Simmons, a clammer who has run S&S Seafood on Litchfield Road since 1999, told the Tri-Town Weekly that a factor in his decision was the impact that declining softshell clam harvests had upon his wholesale business. Simmons told the weekly newspaper that volume had dropped from more than 1 million pounds of clams three years ago to only 300,000 pounds so far this year.
“Sea level and ocean temperature rise are real issues,” Simmons told the newspaper. “If you follow the science — if there’s any credence to that — it isn’t going to be positive for the soft-shell clam business.”
The closing of S&S Seafood leaves Dennison’s Seafood as the only wholesale clam business left in Freeport, the newspaper reported.
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