Slim pickings for Nantucket scallopers on opening day

Optimism was in short supply as commercial scalloping season opened this morning, but  the dock price, the price paid to fishermen for a pound of shucked scallops, was almost double what it was on opening day last year: $22 per pound, compared to $12 in 2020. At Sayle’s Seafood, scallops were selling retail for $35 per pound this afternoon. Souza’s Seafood had yet to set a price. Bob DeCosta, who has been working the waters here for decades, “I just think there aren’t a lot of scallops. It’s not like last year. But we’ll see. The fleet is small and the price is good. >click to read< 17: 11

One Response to Slim pickings for Nantucket scallopers on opening day

  1. STRIPEDBASSHOLE says:

    Wait til they get all that Government Housing for the Invasive European Green Crabs completed “WIND TURBINES”!!! Then they ship over Ballast full of nano size Green Crab Eggs along with Parts and Components to build the Turbines benefiting which ever Country they’re contracted with… I’m not talking made in American!!! I believe the Turbines are not a Healthy choice and will not protect our PRISTINE SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD PROVIDING OCEANS!!! A mature Green Crab 2 to 3 inches across are capable of producing 200,000 or more Eggs!!! Then they take over like Locust!!! Bay Scallops will be a memory as will every other beneficial Shellfish!!!

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