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Fishing for Scallops When the Scallops Are Nearly All Dead (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Surprisingly it sounds like something other than overfishing.

at the moment, most of the adult scallops in Peconic Bay are dead. They died in 2019, and nobody knew exactly why. They died again the following year — about 98 percent of all the adult scallops, dead in their pink and green and gray shells along the bottom of the bay — and most of them died every year after.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s another dead zone from runoff?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Could be a bunch of things… pollution, parasites, disease, water temperature (the latter 3, like attributable to climate change).