Now, Brewer and his adult son operate the state’s most successful scallop farm with 8 acres of lease site between them and another 3 acres pending approval from the Department of Marine Resources.

Bivalve farming has a smaller environmental footprint than other animal protein production, and is generally more sustainable than finfish farming. Not only can scallops, clams, mussels, and oysters ...

Marsden took a page out of Japan’s handbook on scallop farming. He spent a week there learning how to grow and market scallops. He has brought that knowledge back home with him and is now ...

Father-and-son fishermen Marsden and Bob Brewer have deployed a Japanese technique for farming Atlantic sea scallops, using lantern nets — the first of its kind in Penobscot Bay.

As more areas are becoming overfished, fishermen and scientists in Maine are developing a way to farm scallops instead of catching them. It's said to be safer for the environment and brings in ...

But, in theory, there’s money to be had in scallops — the wild scallop fishery is perennially lucrative even though it’s often curtailed by emergency closures to protect at-risk populations. “I think ...

Farming the Water. Episode 2 | 54m 54s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Farmed fish has a PR problem rooted in a legacy of pollution and environmental disaster. But innovative technologies and a ...

Huge scallop harvest, growth in oyster farming boost East End Credit: Randee Daddona By Mark Harrington [email protected] MHarringtonNews December 1, 2017 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Maine sea farmers are taking a page from Japan (again), an industry ...

Automation technology and farming techniques borrowed from more mature scallop fisheries as far away as Japan are giving some seafood harvesters a glimpse of a potentially profitable future.

People have tried to farm sea scallops in the U.S. before but researcher Morse says it hasn't worked very well. A big problem is that the little larval scallops take a long time to grow and don't ...

As more areas are becoming overfished, fishermen and scientists in Maine are developing a way to farm scallops instead of catching them. It's said to be safer for the environment and brings in ...