Summary of Industry.
| Area of quahaug territory (acres), | 200 |
| Number of men (transient), | 15 |
| Number of boats, | — |
| Value of boats, | — |
| Number of skiffs, | 10 |
| Value of skiffs, | $100 |
| Value of implements, | $50 |
Production.
| "Little necks":— | |
| Bushels, | 300 |
| Value, | $750 |
| Quahaugs:— | |
| Bushels, | 200 |
| Value, | $200 |
| Total:— | |
| Bushels, | 500 |
| Value, | $950 |
Eastham.
Eastham is similar to Orleans in situation, possessing a good coast line on both the east and west, which affords excellent opportunities for the quahaug fishery.
On the west or bay side are extensive beds of quahaugs, for the most part blunts, extending into deep water for nearly 3 miles. This quahauging territory comprises about 4,000 acres, which is open to the quahaugers of both Wellfleet and Orleans. While scattering quahaugs are found over approximately all this territory, the fishery is conducted in only certain definite places.
In Nauset harbor on the east side during the season of 1906 numerous beds of "little necks," about the 1½-inch size, were discovered. It is thought that these came from the spawn of certain quahaugs which the life savers were accustomed to bed in the harbor for their own use. These quahaugs were torn up and scattered by the ice during a severe winter, and in this way the nucleus of a new fishery was formed. Two men who discovered the best of these beds cleared $60 in one week.
On the west coast of the town 25 men commonly dig with long-handled rakes. These fishermen work at quahauging about 100 days in the year, and average from 5 to 6 bushels per day. Power boats are used for the most part, although the boats are not so large or expensive as those of the Orleans fishermen, for the Eastham quahauger digs in the more sheltered waters of Wellfleet Bay.