PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Scallops are among the most valuable and beloved seafood items in the U.S., and a group of Maine firms thinks farming them might be a way of keeping up with increasing demand.

The sea scallop aquaculture community is unique to Maine and poised for growth, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which this week published a video advertising the industry.

Father-and-son fishermen Marsden and Bob Brewer have deployed a Japanese technique for farming Atlantic sea scallops, using lantern nets — the first of its kind in Penobscot Bay. Island Advantages ...

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A new species was found on commercial scallop farms in southern China, researchers said. Zhang, et al (2025) Ecology and Evolution In the Beibu Gulf of the South China Sea, an expansive grid of tied ...

The 200,000 scallops Marsden and Bob Brewer have been growing in the US state of Maine’s Penobscot Bay -- the first time a scallop farm was tried in that body of water -- are of the Atlantic sea ...