Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline ...

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Scientists in the UK have discovered that if they take a pot meant for catching crabs and just add some bright lights, scallops flock through the door like it's Studio 54. Scallops are normally fished ...

Commercial fisheries using trawls for groundfish and shrimp and dredges fo\r scallops take place in the 6 fishery management regions of the contiguous United States. The information collected about ...

Scallop dredging and bottom-trawling are doing lasting damage to key habitats in coastal waters. The law commits Scottish ministers to protect them, writes Rebecca McQuillan, so it’s past time to act ...

Processing scallops during the 2025 Sea Scallop Dredge Survey aboard the F/V Selje. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Dana Morton Our Atlantic sea scallop dredge survey collects data on abundance, spatial ...

Two fishermen have been fined more than £4,700 for illegal scallop dredging in a protected marine area off the Isle of Wight. Peter Marshall, 60, and Benjamin Lewis, 40, both from Warsash, pleaded ...

People in the Summer Isles hold a weekend-long Maerl and Herring festival to celebrate 10 years of a ban on dredging for scallops, which has sparked a dramatic revival of marine life.Photograph: ...