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Maine Sea Scallop Fishery Information

General

• Maine landings data
• General information from the National Marine Fisheries Service
• Sea scallop seafood information c/o NMFS FishWatch

News - Maine

• Schedule of upcoming (May-June) scallop rotational management scoping sessions and minutes from April 2012 meetings
• DMR rotational management proposal (PDF file, 3 pages, 398 kb, 3-29-12)
• Emergency closure of East and South Bays in Cobscook Bay area, effective Jan. 2, 2012

Management - Maine

• 2011-12 Maine scallop fishing season
• 2010-12 closed zones and maps
• Informal guide to Maine’s 2010-11 scallop fishing regulations (pdf file, 4 pages, 31kb)
• 2010-11 Maine scallop fishing season, and extension of Whiting Bay/Dennys Bay closed area
• New safety training requirements for divers and tenders, effective Dec. 21, 2009
• Commercial and non-commercial scallop fishing license applications (go to Marine Harvesting Application)
• Maine Scallop Advisory Council
• Scallop fishing laws and regulations (Chapter 11, pdf file, 10 pages).
• Scallop fishing license counts and research fund as of April 27, 2004, MS-Excel file

Management - Federal

• Presentation by Dvora Hart, NEFSC, at 2012 Fishermen's Forum, on management and recovery of federal fishery & rotational closed areas - PDF file, 18 slides, 588 kb
• Federal sea scallop fishery management info and announcements c/o NERO
• New England Fisheries Management Council scallop page
• Sea scallop fishery and stock status c/o Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)

Research - most recent first

• 2010 Maine Sea Scallop Survey report - PDF file, 1 MB, 30 pages
• Research priorities as set in 2010
• 2009 Maine Sea Scallop Survey report - PDF file, 731 kb, 42 pages
• Scallop Enhancement - literature review by Danielle Brzezinski, 2008 - PDF file, 393 kb, 62 pages
• 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
• 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 Trisha Cheney De Graaf.
• For questions or comments about Research, please contact Kevin Kelly.

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