LaMonica family went from scungili to become a major player in the surf clam and ocean quahog industry
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Food and Drink] By Alan Dorich - December 10, 2014 -
Peter LaMonica co-owner of Surside Foods, Port Norris, NJ, says "We're selling our customers nearly 15 million pounds yearly."
Surfside is one of two companies in the nation that specializes in processing Ocean Quahog (Arctica islandica) and Atlantic Surf (Spisula solida) clams and clam juice. The company's roots go back to the family fish market, which specialized in scungilli, a marine mollusk also known as conch, that members of the LaMonica family started in Brooklyn in the 1930s.
As the scungilli business flourished, the family moved from Brooklyn, N.Y...
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