The scallop dragging (dredge trawling) season has ended in most Maine fishing zones. The winter fishing vessels are starting to come in to clean up and remove scallop-related gear (masts, booms, shelling huts, drags [dredges], etc.). They’ll be back as lithe lobster boats by June.
Above, you see Fishing Vessel Tarrfish made fast to the Town Dock in Naskeag Harbor yesterday as the tide goes out. This image of her deck below shows that her drag apparently is ready to be taken off the vessel:
The drag’s “chain bag” seems to be rolled-up around its wooden “club stick” and, on the left, you can see part of the winch that raises and lowers the drag.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on March 29, 2022.)