Seven months after Hurricane Michael, the FWC’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute completed its survey of the St. Joseph Bay adult scallop population and the numbers are remarkable.
There was cautious optimism for a scallop harvest season late last year when the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission held a town hall meeting on the population in St. Joseph Bay.
At the time, the news was gloomy, researchers unable to locate live adult scallops and spat collectors, onto which juvenile scallops attach, were gone.
All cages used as part of a multi-year effort to restore the Bay’s scallop population were damaged or destroyed.
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