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Cape May remains No. 2 East Coast fishing port |
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CAPE MAY — Rising scallop prices helped boost this commercial
fishing port’s catch to $81 million in 2010, an increase of
slightly more than 10 percent over 2009.
“The catch is the same. It’s just that the price is better,” said Tom McNulty Jr., 30, of Middle Township, who works on the family-owned scallop boat Negotiator. The 2010 data kept Cape May — including docks in Wildwood — the second largest port on the East Coast behind New Bedford, Mass., which retained its No. 1 ranking with $306 million in catch. New Bedford, also a large scallop port, totaled $249 million in fish in 2009. Massachusetts remained the top state for scallops by harvesting 31.2 million pounds of the 57.5-million-pound U.S. catch. New Jersey was No. 2 at 14.2 million pounds. Read the complete story from The Press of Atlantic City
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Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright. Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda
