Aquaculture

2012

November 21, 2012

Chilmark Scallopers Husband Resources

Remy Tumin
Aquaculture
Nashaquitsa Pond
Scallops

Bay scallopers in Chilmark are being asked to concentrate on Nashaquitsa Pond until early next month in order to make the most efficient use of a healthy crop of scallops this year.

The Chilmark selectmen voted Tuesday to close Menemsha Pond to scalloping from Nov. 21 through Dec. 3, and increase the daily limit in Quitsa to three struck bushels. The selectmen also agreed to open the area outside of Chocker’s Creek from the eastern buoy defining the closed area to the town line beginning Nov. 21.

August 16, 2012
ocean

As Carbon Dioxide Changes the Sea, Shellfish Biologists Work to Adapt

Peter Brannen
Climate change
Ocean acidification
Aquaculture

To anyone who has spent a languid summer afternoon tumbling in the waves on South Beach or watched the earth’s closest star dip into the horizon at Menemsha, the ocean can seem eternal and unchanging. But scientists are increasingly discovering that human activity is transforming what was once thought to be an invulnerable resource. The ocean is getting warmer, more acidic, louder and filled with the detritus of civilization. What effect these changes will have on the ocean’s inhabitants in the decades to come is unclear.

July 26, 2012
quahaugs

Baiting the Hook for New Fish Business, Owner Is Good Catch

Mollie Doyle
Aquaculture
Menemsha Fish House
Day With

A smiling Alec Gale hops onto his 52-foot steel fishing boat, The Retriever. “We’ll see what happens today. Something always goes wrong,” he says. It’s 7:30 a.m. and Al has already been up for two hours. He spent the early part of the day with his eight-month-old son Riley. “It’s my only quiet time,” he says. Now he is bounding around his boat, starting one of its three engines, unhooking dock lines and moving the neck of a truck crane around.

July 12, 2012
Capt. David Dutra

Menemsha Fish House

Mark Alan Lovewell
Aquaculture
Menemsha Fish House

There is a resurgence of activity in Menemsha this summer, and it is all related to getting seafood from the boats to the consumer. Every morning, visitors to Menemsha find fishing boats going in and out of the harbor. In the late morning they return from the fishing grounds laden with product

April 5, 2012
David Berube scalloper

Bay Scallop Season; Edgartown Is Tops, Oak Bluffs Meatiest

Mark Alan Lovewell
Aquaculture
Shellfish

If you are looking for a successful measure of the bay scallop season, which ended this week, the results can be found in large piles of shells in three down-Island towns.

There was a huge pile of shells next to a fish shack at the foot of Skiff avenue in Tisbury last week, as well as similar piles at the old Edgartown dump and in Oak Bluffs at Madeiras Cove. It was a good year, though there are many who have memories of better ones.

March 22, 2012
winter flounder John Armstrong

No Flip-Flopping, Winter Flounder Arrive, Hatchery Readies Nest

Mark Alan Lovewell
Aquaculture
Winter flounder

The good news began in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when 68 flapping fish were delivered to the Wampanoag Tribe’s hatchery in Aquinnah near the edge of Menemsha Pond. The adult winter flounder had just been caught earlier Tuesday by Greg Mayhew and his son, Todd, in the Menemsha fishing dragger Unicorn. The hatchery hopes to raise over 50,000 juvenile winter flounder this spring. Later in the year they’ll be released into Menemsha and Lagoon Ponds.

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