A slight change to kit used for scallop dredging has shown potential to reduce the damage caused to the seabed during commercial fishing expeditions. Scallop dredges are heavy-duty metal framed nets ...

Perhaps more importantly, Weeks said the vessel was not moving fast enough to tow a scallop dredge, which requires a speed of 4 to 5 knots, during the night. He said the boat stopped fishing sometime ...

A NOAA Fisheries scallop survey off the northeastern U.S. coast between North Carolina and Massachusetts shows high numbers of juvenile "recruit" sea scallops and ocean quahogs on Georges Bank ...

“So we’re averaging half a scallop per dredge. That’s not going to pay the bills.” MIKE TEHAN, a fishing boat pilot on Long Island, where the once-abundant scallops are dying off. Advertisement ...

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