A slight change to kit used for scallop dredging has shown potential to reduce the damage caused to the seabed during commercial fishing expeditions. Scallop dredges are heavy-duty metal framed nets ...

Scallop dredging can be harmful to the sea floor but farming scallops could be a path forward. Martha Stewart learns the ropes at a scallop farm in Penobscot Bay. She takes the harvest home to prepare ...

Usually during November, veteran scalloper Chris Tehan would be on the Peconics — his boat dredging for the prized mollusk living in the pair of bays squeezed between Long Island's North Fork and ...

PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- The Jacob & Joshua fishing boat is dockside at daybreak and the crew requires a couple different forms of fuel: gas and coffee. The sky is a mix of purple, pink, and ...

The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is a busy place. Roughly 21 miles offshore from Boston’s harbor, the waters are a rich fishing ground, a whale migration route, a shipping channel, and a ...

A NOAA Fisheries scallop survey off the northeastern U.S. coast between North Carolina and Massachusetts shows high numbers of juvenile "recruit" sea scallops and ocean quahogs on Georges Bank ...