These days, farmers in Hung Thanh, Chau Nhan, Hung Loi communes (Hung Nguyen) are entering the clam hunting season. River banks and ditch banks covered with grass and trees are important clam hunting places for people. Photo: Huy Thu
Tools for hunting clams are plastic cups and plastic tubes. Before hunting clams, people roast some rice bran and then mix it with stinky shrimp to make bait to attract clams. Photo: Huy Thu
Mr. Bui Van Toan - a resident who specializes in hunting clams in Hamlet 7, Chau Nhan Commune said: Before placing the cup on the bank of the ditch to lure clams, he must use his hand to rub a little bit of the mixture of bran and shrimp in the bucket on the inside of the plastic cup. Every day, he uses 600 plastic cups to hunt clams and also catches 7 - 10 kg of clams. Photo: Huy Thu
Plastic cups and tubes used to catch clams are often placed at a 45-50 degree angle under the ditch bank, as long as the clams enter the cup, but do not crawl out. Photo: Huy Thu
Immediately after placing the cup, the clams in the cave smell the aroma of roasted bran and shrimp and will crawl into the cup to eat the bait. According to local people's experience, places with many caves and dense bushes often catch a lot of clams. Photo: Huy Thu
About 1-2 hours after placing the cup, the mussel hunter can go collect the cup to catch mussels. Depending on the conditions and preferences of each household, people can hunt mussels at night or during the day. Working at night, wading on river banks, ditches is hard work, and has many potential dangers, so people mainly hunt mussels during the day. Photo: Huy Thu
The method of hunting clams with plastic cups is quite effective, each cup when collected usually has 3 - 5 clams, even more. When collecting cups, people will stack the cups, the clams are poured into the cups on top, the empty cups will be stacked below. Plastic cups absorb heat quickly, while clams in hot sun easily die, therefore, it is necessary to place the cups early and collect the cups when the sun is not yet strong to limit the clams from dying. Photo: Huy Thu
In addition to placing plastic cups on river banks and ditch banks, people also hunt for crabs on the banks of rice fields. However, this is the season when rice is blooming, so people rarely place plastic cups on the banks of rice fields to avoid damaging the rice. Photo: Huy Thu
Clams belong to the crab family and live in brackish water along rivers. There are many types of clams: red-claw clams, wind clams, black clams, hairy clams... Clams can be processed into many attractive dishes such as clam cakes, clam soup, fried clams... Clams are in short supply at the beginning of the season and have high prices, Hung Nguyen people cannot catch them fast enough to sell. Photo: Huy Thu
The clams have just been caught, and traders come to the house to buy them to bring to Vinh City and Hanoi for consumption. Ms. Nguyen Thi Linh in Phu Xuan hamlet, Chau Nhan commune said: This clam season, her husband and she have only been hunting for a few days. With nearly 500 plastic cups, each time they go to the field, the two of them can harvest 8-10 kg of clams. The price of clams sold at home is 60,000 VND/kg. If they hunt clams all day, her husband and she can harvest about 1 million VND. Photo: Huy Thu
People of Chau Nhan commune go hunting for clams along the river. Video : Huy Thu
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