August 29, 2016 — ELLSWORTH, Maine — Maine’s fishing managers are proposing that fishermen be allowed to catch about the same amount of the state’s beloved scallops in the coming winter fishing season as they did this year.
Maine divides the coasts into three scallop fishing zones. The state Department of Marine Resources says next year fishermen in the zones covering southern and Midcoast Maine should be allowed to possess up to 15 gallons of scallops per day.
Fishermen in the Cobscook Bay zone would be allowed to possess up to 10 gallons per day. Those limits are the same as 2015-16.
Read the full story from the Associated Press at the Washington Times