UMass Dartmouth Plays Integral Part In Booming Scallop Business

 Our beloved scallop, the biggest and best in the world, is right off our coast, waiting to make our lives better.

The scallop — or placopecten magellanicus — keeps New Bedford the most profitable fishing port in the United States. Those riches wash all over southeastern Massachusetts.

“The scallop industry has been good for six-odd years,” said Jeff Bolton, the vice president of sales and marketing for Atlantic Cape Fisheries, which operates a packing and shipping plant at 140 Waldron Road.

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