Eight Projects Recommended for NOAA’s 2025 Sea Scallop Research Set-Aside Program
NOAA Fisheries recently recommended eight new projects for the 2025 Scallop Research Set-Aside Program. The program, which supports applied research for the U.S. wild-caught scallop fishery, awards scallop set-asides instead of monetary funding, thus providing fishery researchers with the means to conduct their research while also harvesting scallops to fund their work.
The scallops that are set aside would normally have been available for commercial harvest only. NOAA Fisheries placed 2023 U.S. commercial scallop landings at 27.4 million pounds, valued at $360 million, making...
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