Recreational shellfisher? You might be able to harvest scallops in Yarmouth next year.

YARMOUTH — Lantern nets covered in seaweed hung suspended from a Packet Landing dock on the Bass River. Inside the 10-foot cylindrical nets were hundreds of thousands of scallops. Shellfish Constable Casaundra Healy plans to distribute them along the river in just a few weeks. It’s part of the town’s plan to restore a... read full story

"Forty years ago, scallops were the most bountiful catch in all of Bass River,"