Leslie Sturmer, left, an aquaculture extension agent with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, checks clams with Mike Hodges, owner of Hodges Seafood Company in Cedar Key – April 10, 2006. Hodges, who harvests 15 to 20 baskets of clams a week every week of the year, has worked closely with Sturmer to build the clam industry in the Gulf Coast village.