HALLOWELL, Maine — Down East Maine’s ongoing scallop harvest is about to go from bad to worse.
The Maine Department of Marine Resources announced Friday that much of Cobscook Bay is being closed to scallop boats through the end of the 2011-12 season, which runs through March. That ban took effect on Monday, Jan. 2.
“It’s going to be a bleak season,” Pat Keliher, the acting DMR commissioner, said Friday. “In fact, it already is. But our research along the coast shows the resource is in very, very rough shape.”
The closure that takes effect Monday includes portions of the east and south bays. The eastern boundary of the off-limits area is a straight line between Birch Point and Grove Point. The western boundary runs between Mahar Point and Crow Neck.
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