85% Cut in Yellowtail Allocation to Scallopers Will Have Little Effect on Scallop Catch in 2018
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton December 15, 2017
How is it that scallops catches will rise next year, while the scallop fleet takes an 85% reduction in yellowtail bycatch in Southern New England.
Actually these two things are not contradictory. The scallop industry and the New England regional council have been working for years to reduce yellowtail bycatch in the scallop industry by modifying dredges, and by providing a large mesh escape nets above the dredge. The council has also prohibited possession of yellowtail by Scallopers.
This year, yellowtail flounder in Southern New England was one of the worst performing stocks, with biomass ...
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