How It All Started

Matt Rocheleau grew up digging clams out of Falmouth's Great Pond. By the early '80s he was hauling fresh shellfish to Boston's fish pier with a pickup truck, a cooler, and a handshake — delivering to Cape restaurants before most people were awake.


When he met Sue, they built The Clam Man the way they built their life — early mornings, long days, and a refusal to cut corners. One truck became two. One customer became twenty. In 1993 they opened The Clam Man Market in Falmouth and started putting restaurant-quality seafood directly into the hands of the community they loved.


Forty-one years later, The Clam Man is still family-owned and still run by the people who started it. Their son Marc now leads operations as the business moves into its second generation — same standards, bigger reach. In May 2026, we opened our second retail market in Mashpee, offering the same hand-selected quality as the Falmouth location.


Today we supply over 200 restaurants, caterers, schools, healthcare facilities and country clubs across Cape Cod and up the South Shore — from The Chart Room in Pocasset and Landfall in Woods Hole to the Wianno Club in Osterville and Black Rock Country Club in Hingham. We operate two upscale retail fish markets. We run a buying station on Martha's Vineyard for Cape Cod Bay scallops out of Edgartown. And we ship locally harvested shellfish to wholesalers across the country.


If it doesn't meet our standard, it doesn't leave the building. We sell seafood the way Matt started — hand-selected, moved fast, and delivered with pride. Four decades in, we're still showing up before sunrise with passion and a commitment to sourcing the highest quality seafood.