Environment

Five facts about scallops

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• In the early 1980s, fishermen could harvest an average of 300,000 pounds of scallop meat annually, contributing over $4 million to the local economy each year. By 2013, however, just over 32,000 pounds of meat, worth about $475,000, were harvested dockside, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.