The Peconic Bay scallop season begins the first Monday in November and continues through March. But the scallops have been wiped out in East End waters in each of the past three seasons. After the first season wipeout, Francesca Rheannon talked with Steven Tettelbach of the Cornell Cooperative Extension about the catastrophic failure of the scallop harvest.
Then, earlier this year Francesca spoke with Dr. Chris Gobler of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at Stony Brook University and fisherman Sean Barrett of Dock to Dish, a community-supported fishery about the promise of kelp farming in local bays for cleaning up pollution in our waters. If that succeeds, it could help our local bivalves like scallops and oysters survive and thrive.
