Scarce Vineyard Bay Scallops Are Costly
November 29, 2018 | 1 min to read
Last year the Vineyard bay scallop harvest boomed. Prices hovered around $20 per pound. Not so this year. Bay scallops are scant, and at Menemsha Fish Market they were retailing at $38 per pound on Monday.
Owner Stanley Larsen told The Times bay scallops are very scarce this year, and he set his price to reflect what is being charged off-Island.
“Nobody went out today,” Larsen said Monday morning, “nice day, too — because there’s no scallops.”
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