Scallop Catches Down Again in Alaska
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] - July 3, 2018
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch --- Alaska’s fishery for weathervane scallops got underway on July 1.
Just two boats will target the pricey shellfish in areas from Yakutat to the Bering Sea. Weathervanes are the largest scallops in the world with a shell diameter averaging ten inches. It can take up to five years for scallops to reach market size, and they can live up to 20 years. Scallop boats drop big dredges that make tows along mostly sandy bottoms of ...
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