An MIT scientist has developed a new dredge for catching scallops that is more environmentally friendly than the standard devices used in the industry. He is the first to admit that current dredges do ...

A slight change to kit used for scallop dredging has shown potential to reduce the damage caused to the seabed during commercial fishing expeditions. Scallop dredges are heavy-duty metal framed nets ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Cliff Goudey's version of the better mousetrap is the better scallop dredge. The director of MIT Sea Grant's Center for Fisheries Engineering Research wants to build a better ...

The goal is to keep catching scallops — without harming the ocean’s majestic sea turtles. And the solution, while it might seem simple, has taken years to test and refine. Scallop dredges work the sea ...

The slow-swimming creatures that lumber through the cold waters south of Cape Cod come from an ancient lineage that can grow to 1,000 pounds and live for 70 years. Once thriving off the East Coast, ...

BOSTON — Federal regulators are now requiring boats that dredge for Atlantic scallops to use new gear that protects sea turtles by deflecting them out of the way. Today, the National Marine Fisheries ...

Most studies on the effects of fishing gear on the seafloor have been focused on trawl and dredge fisheries. A significant portion of the landings of finfish and shellfish from U.S. coastal waters ...

A NOAA Fisheries scallop survey off the northeastern coast between North Carolina and Massachusetts shows high numbers of juvenile "recruit" sea scallops and ocean quahogs on Georges Bank tempered ...