salt ponds and lagoons are having a great year. I just dip net (in waders) (waist deep) with the wife (simple pleasures with friends and family).. It is fun to poke around with a peeper and see them all.
I am not that serious about it anymore. (I use to be a comm digger on LI (GSBay) and did scalloping in the winter with a dredge. I just do it for good eats and the fun of being around the water now. (And I like to look at my wife in her waders...it is a bizzare turn-on for me.
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I heard the comm guys pulled 600 bushel out of the lagoon last weekend
Scallops are a weird critter...beyond all those eyeballs looking at you, they only live about 1.5 years breed and die (unlike hardshell clams). If we don't take the adults after they have reproduced they will just die anyway and feed the greencrabs. May as well enjoy the harvest. The key to a good harvest is high water quality and eelgrass ponds. I think BeachWalkers Island has the primo environment for scallops, MV is a distant second. I know MV boosts the harvest and grows them in cages Nantucket is all natural harvest.