Scientists blame the climate crisis, but they’re also hopeful the marine animal could be saved before the local fishing community goes bust.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.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 South Fork.
“We monitor 21 different sites. And in total, we found only 19 adult scallops in those 21 surveys,” said Harrison Tobi, an aquaculture specialist who helped lead the study. Recent counts have been so low that the federal governmentTobi said climate change-induced warmer waters are causing better conditions for
Tehan said the harvest cap is usually 10 bushels per day, bringing in about $1,500 to $1,600. He said that contributed significantly to his annual income. “I don’t make a ton of money anyway, so it’s a nice boost,” he said. Now, there’s no scallop income to speak of, Tehan said. The Cornell Cooperative Extension estimated that scallopsYou used to be able to get your 10 bushels in like an hour and a half. And then the other day, I was out for three and a half hours.“You used to be able to get your 10 bushels in like an hour and a half. And then the other day, I was out for three and a half hours. I got one and a half of a bushel,” said Tehan.
“If we're able to spawn those scallops, their progeny hopefully would have the same genetic traits,” Tobi said. “We can hopefully speed up natural selection within the Peconics so that we build a wild population that can have better resilience.”
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