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(April 1, 2024) This year’s commercial scalloping season came to an end Friday amid signs the fishery – which has been decimated in the last 20 years – is recovering, at least on the environmental side.
( Dec. 28, 2023 ) Two weeks before Christmas, Tara Riley talked about what it will take to help the astronomical amount of scallop seed that appeared in the harbor this summer reach maturity, to grow …
(Nov. 16, 2023) Like most scallop fishermen, Bob DeCosta knows that the unprecedented amount of scallop seed now in the harbor will not equal a banner season next year without a little help. …
(Nov. 10, 2023) The island’s bay scallop fishery was shut down Friday because over a million juvenile scallop seed were dangerously close to becoming stranded on nearby beaches. Fishermen, …
(Oct. 31, 2023) The island's commercial scallopers will head out into Nantucket and Madaket harbors at first light Wednesday for the opening day of the 2023-2024 commercial scalloping season. …