Last year’s bay scallop season ended with mixed results, but fishermen had a reason to be hopeful. In the water there was a large amount of immature scallops that were too young to be harvested.
Last year’s bay scallop season ended with mixed results, but fishermen had a reason to be hopeful. In the water there was a large amount of immature scallops that were too young to be harvested.
Recreational scalloping outside of Tisbury’s ponds is set to begin Oct. 19 and commercial scalloping Oct. 21, following a town select board vote Tuesday night.
The select boards in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and Chilmark all voted this week to set their scalloping dates.
Jeff Canha is a fifth-generation Islander who has been on the water since he was born.
Edgartown selectmen voted unanimously to suspend Nick Viera’s scalloping license for three years after the shellfish constable found high levels of seed scallops in his haul.
It’s November, and that means bay scallop season has arrived on the Vineyard. But by most accounts, it will be an average to poor year for scalloping, both up Island and down.
