AREA OF CALICO SCALLOP EXPLORATIONS 

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 BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES RESEARCH VESSELS ' 



R/V SILVER BAY AND R/V OREGON 1960-1968 



AREA OF MAJOR EFFORT BY COMMERCIAL CALICO SCALLOP 

 FISHING FLEET-1969 



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Figure 3. — Cape Kennedy beds showing area of scallop explorations from 1960 to 1968 and major 

 commercial fishing location during 1969. 



Kennedy beds. By May 1968 at least 16 vessels 

 had landed calico scallop in Florida and Georgia 

 ports. Of these, all but four were shrimp-type 

 vessels. In January 1968 a 130-foot scallop ves- 

 sel was equipped for ship-board processing and 

 from Brunswick, Ga., as home port, began 

 dredging on the Florida grounds. In March 

 1968 a scallop vessel from New Bedford, Mass., 



landed six trips in Brunswick, Ga., from the 

 Florida grounds. 



In April 1968 two shallow draft dredgers 

 from Chesapeake Bay made several landings 



6 Landings ranged from 735 to 1,500 bushels (about 

 51,450 to 105,000 pounds) of shell stock and each catch 

 was obtained in about 24 hours of dredging with a single 

 8-foot tumbler dredge. 



