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Fishermen, board weigh two-week season extension and raising scallop limit to 7 bushels
Summary
Board members and commercial fishermen discussed missed fishing days, a possible two-week extension requested to the Massachusetts DMF via the select board, and mixed views among fishermen about raising the bushel limit to seven.
The Harbor & Shellfish Advisory Board on Feb. 4 considered two related options for the commercial bay scallop season: asking the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries for a short extension of the season and raising the commercial bushel limit from six to seven.
Tara Riley, natural-resources staff, said the town has "enough information" to front-load a request to the state and that Dan McKernan at the Division of Marine Fisheries suggested the select board put an official letter in writing. "His suggestion would be to develop the request and the rationale and have…
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