It’s spring break time for the fishermen around here. The masts and booms for scallop dredging (“dragging”) mostly have been removed and clean-up time has arrived. Compare this image of Fishing Vessel “Tarrfish” as she looked last week, with her dragging self at the end of February:
The Maine scallop dragging season officially ended March 27 and the scallop diving season ended April 20. Note that “Tarrfish” still has her international diving boat flag up for April diving. Her owner and captain, David Tarr, is one of the few hardy divers in Maine who don a wet suit and air tank and hand-harvest the more expensive “divers’ scallops” from the sea bottom during winter.
Summer lobstering is next. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on April 24 and February 27, 2024.)