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June 22, PM. By Rachel Rock.
Stabilizing The World’s Last Commercial Wild Bay Scallop Fishery In Nantucket
After years of work to restore their bay scallop fishery, there was a massive and mysterious die off in the past two seasons. July 24, PM. The company wanted to discharge up to 1. In , Nantucket fishermen harvested a peak of , bushels. This year, they also produced about , juvenile scallops. The wild bay scallop is a sweet and tender — and smaller — cousin of the much more common sea scallop. Eldridge is a fifth generation Nantucketer who used to go out with his grandfather and father to fish for bay scallops.
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The five-month commercial scalloping season begins every November, and is a hard, laborious job during the coldest months. GBH News brings you the stories, local voices, and big ideas that shape our world.
Her job is no less than to save an historic industry that was nearly lost to pollution in the harbor from sewage and fertilizers. At 47, he is one of the younger members of the commercial fishery, and perhaps one of the few fishermen who appreciates what Riley is trying to do. Steve Tettelbach, the Shellfish Ecologist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension Program, has spent forty years studying bay scallops in Peconic Bay, Long Island, a spot that provides a cautionary tale.
Like whaling, commercial scalloping provided an important independence from the mainland. One of the hurdles Riley faces is, ironically, the fishermen themselves, according to Josh Eldridge. Tagged: Environment. The world is changing fast and so are we.
July 14, PM. July 10, PM. The house made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne is torn between historical integrity and climate mitigation. Not all of them will survive, but Riley expects fishermen will pull in upwards of 5, bushels of scallops this year, and Riley hopes that amount will increase in the near future to anywhere from 10,, bushels.
The cool waters of Nantucket Sound are a perfect habitat for bay scallops, which use the native inshore eelgrass as both a nursery and cover from predators and hard surf. Follow us so you don't miss a thing! Found only in coastal waters from Cape Cod to Texas and parts of Mexico, wild bay scallop fisheries have been disappearing over the past 50 years. In Nantucket, I would say that that light has been on almost the entire time.
To change that, the island overhauled the waste-water management facility and increased regulations on lawn treatments. Wild bay scallops have generated revenue in Nantucket for years, replacing the whaling industry after it shifted to New Bedford. Tettelbach said Nantucket, and what Riley and her crew are doing, is crucial for bay scallop fisheries everywhere.
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Join Us. Related Stories. More than likely the industry would have crashed by now. The cobalt blue eyes of the Nantucket bay scallop are in plain view as it sits atop a full bushel harvested from Madaket Harbor. The hatchery now typically releases between and million scallop larvae into the ocean each year.
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