ITALIAN DEMAND FOR ‘VONGOLE’ CONSUMING MORE LOCAL PRODUCTION
July 1st, 2007
BY ERIC LYMAN, in Rome ITALY is Europe's top producer of clams, and in most years the country consumes more of these small molluscs than any other European country, and what's mire - local consumption has been increasing dramatically. In 2005 (the latest statistics available), Italy produced about 85,000 metric tonnes of the three major clam species in the country (grooved carpet shell clams, or Ruditapes decussates; Japanese carpet shell clams, or Ruditapes philippinarum; and striped Venus clams, or Chamelea gallina or Venus gallina). That's up from 72,000 ...
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