The scallop dredging season begins next week in our zone. Many fishing vessels in Naskeag Harbor have brought their lobster traps ashore and are now sprouting masts and booms to become scallop trawlers. “Shelling houses” have been erected behind their cabins to help protect the shuckers from winter sea winds.
Metal and rope scalloping dredge gear was decorating the Town Pier yesterday, soon to be transferred to a vessel.
(Brooklin, Maine)