Our fishing vessels show the signs of an intense winter scalloping harvest at the end of the season. Here, we see two of them yesterday: Long Set and Tarr Baby. They converted to scalloping after last year’s lobster season and now remind us of big horses that have been worked hard and need a good grooming and rest.
Most of the scallop fishing vessels will have their masts, dredges, and shelling huts removed, get freshened up, and be ready for this summer’s lobster season, when the rest of the fleet is taken off their blocks and put back into the water. That is, if there is a lobster market to supply after (during?) the pandemic. (Brooklin, Maine)