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Fishing for Scallops When the Scallops Are Nearly All Dead (www.nytimes.com)
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[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago

"We're all just trying to find the guy who did this!"

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Maybe it’s another dead zone from runoff?

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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

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