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Scallops in Closed Areas: Do They Stay or Do They Go? |
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During November, young scallops, which have drifted in the sea and along ocean currents since their parents’ late-summer spawning, are settling down on patches of sand and gravel seafloor along the Maine coast. No one knows where they have come from, or where exactly they will go, but some will land in a sheltered area and grow to market size. Maine’s scallop harvesters, who have been fishing discrete scallop beds in coastal waters for decades, already know that some places are better for Placopecten magellanicus than others.
Once one of the state’s most valuable fisheries, scallop landings declined to an all-time low six years ago, and now provide only part-time jobs for a few fishermen in most coastal communities. However, the fishery remains important in some areas, particularly in the Cobscook Bay region, where nearly 70 percent of Maine’s harvest is landed. Read the complete article from Working Waterfront.
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
