Busted! Environmental Police discover scallops hidden in bathroom, refrigerator

April 9, 2018 New England

A commercial scallop vessel was found to be hiding scallops in the bathroom and refrigerator following an inspection on Sunday, according to the Massachusetts Environmental Police. The fishing vessel Lugia was on a “closed area trip” which restricted the landing limit to 18,000. Upon completion of the off-load, the vessel was found to be over the limit by three-hundred pounds. Environmental Police officers asked the captain if there were any more scallops on the vessel after the off-load, according to Maj. Pat Moran. >click to read<18:24

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

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