PORTLAND (AP) – Maine’s scallop draggers and divers face a shortened season and new restrictions as the scallop season gets under way.
The season in state waters runs from Monday to Jan. 4, and again from Feb. 25 to March 31. That’s a total of 70 days, which is a nearly 50 percent cutback from last year. Fishermen will also have a daily catch limit of 200 poE1/2 in state waters.
Regulators say the new rules are needed to give the ailing resource a chance to recover.
Maine fishermen last year harvested about 1.3 million pounds of scallops. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, the catch routinely exceeded 10 million pounds.
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