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Maine Sea Scallop Fishery Information

General

• Maine landings data
• General information from the National Marine Fisheries Service

Management

• 2009-2010 Maine fishing season and closed areas
• Community meetings, April 2009
• Modified closed areas emergency regulation, Feb. 21, 2009
• Maine fishing season, ring size, and daily limits, as of Nov. 24, 2008
• Commercial and non-commercial scallop fishing license applications (go to Marine Harvesting Application)
• Maine Scallop Advisory Council
• Past industry meetings
  • Industry overview, June 14, 2001
  • Meeting summary, July 10, 2001
  • Summary of fall 2001 - winter 2002 meetings
  • Fishermen's Forum discussion agenda, March 1, 2002
  • Summary of spring 2002 meetings
  • February 2006 meetings on amendment to federal scallop management plan
• Scallop fishing laws and regulations.  Note these may not be up-to-date. 
• Scallop fishing license counts and research fund as of April 27, 2004, MS-Excel file
• Federal sea scallop fishery management info c/o NERO
• New England Fisheries Management Council scallop page

Research

• 2008 Maine Sea Scallop Survey report - PDF file, 1.3 MB, 23 pages
• 2007 Cobscook Bay Survey report - PDF file, 1.15 MB, 21 pages
• 2006 Maine Sea Scallop Survey report - PDF file, 2.34 MB, 35 pages
• 2005 Maine Sea Scallop Survey report - PDF file, 1.0 MB, 19 pages
• 2005 Monitoring and Enhancement report - PDF file, 5.2 MB, 73 pages
• Scallop enhancement workshop presentations, February 2005
• Research priorities as set in 2000
• Field Trials of 4" Rings in the Inshore Scallop Fishery of the Gulf of Maine, PDF file, 374 kb, 18 pages

instructions & help

• PDF files may require Adobe Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader (download here) .
• Please contact Kevin Kelly if you need an alternate format.

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• For Management questions or comments, please contact Togue Brawn.
• For questions or comments about Research, please contact Kevin Kelly.

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