The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-26
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SCALLOP FISHING.
a Pursuit Thnt Requires Little Capital ana
Lesa Skill, bur Lots or Luck.

BROOKLYN, Me-. Nov. 25.-Aftcr the summer
visitors have gone away and left their blazers
and boomers to be worked over into suits for
next years scarecrows, the regular residents
can harvest no more crops of consequence until
the water of the bay gets cold enough to bring
the scallops so near the surface that they may
be dredged from boats. Though there is no law
regulating the depth at which scallopp
may be taken, the fishermen seldom try
to get them in more than twenty faith
oms of water. When they go deeper
than this the lines get tangled in all kinds of
submarine weeds and monsters and become so
heavy to handle that extra men are required to
pull them in. AS the scallops are sure to como
up from cold storage in the abysses Of the Attain
tic as soon as the shores are fenced about with
ice, the fishermen wait. believing it is easier
and cheaper to let the scallops come to them
than it is for them to go to the scallops.
Scallop fishing as practiced by tho people
along shore requires little capital and less skill
A heavy dredge worth So. 5 is weighted and
attached to a long stout line Of new rigging, and
when the other end of the line is made fast to
the stern of a sailboat the outfit is complete.
With one man to steer and trim sail and an.
other man to tend line, the boat backs and fills
above the grounds where scaIlops are presumed
to lurk. As the steel-jawed dredge scrapes
along the floor OF the Atlantic it picks up and
bags whatever is found lying loose. Sometimes
it will load itself with starish and sea urchins
that have gone down to take Il rest; the next din
it will hold nothing but great quivering masses of
Jelly hsh, and then ii will come up a dozen times
in succession. bringing whole loads of rounded
stones that have been centuries in trying TO get
polished. Finally, after days and days OF cruis-
ing, the helmsman steers his craft above the
right spot, and up como barrels and barrels Of
the biggest and latest scallops to be found In
the world. After lie has loaded his boat to- tbe
gunwale once II a season the fisherman tries
ing that, as the chances were twenty to one tbat
he would not lind any, they will now be a hun
uF The ) giant seailo OPP Of tho s Ma n1 n "md New Bruins.
wick waters is as much bigger than the Cape
S Sheep s'@THi Se sS Ss on OF t ihlepHhG yann II s scsiiap than b s.s :
dom more than three inches across its widest
part and never exceeds four inches, while a
is from six TO eight inches wide. The shells that
come from Massachusetts are given away to the
ask pay for taxing them away. The smallest 81
the Maine shells are sold to the farmers wives,
from the dairy milk. and Tie 'f big 'r Snes
are eagerly Taken ;h.Gao. by artists, who, paint
Bile bundle OF light:colored muscle IS as swees
little tendon which comes from the Cane Cod
shell. Before selling they are put in water and
six times as large as they were in tic. 'ffheerne'
having gained all they will, they are shipped to
Boston and rev York where they arc sold BY
best offers not exceeding ~ n gallon.
Until two years ago no portion OF the scallon
was considered edible but tho springy muscle
which reached from smell 10 shell on tho inside.
and enabled the occupant to lock up Tho house
against all aquatic intruders; but lately tho
cooking schools have evolved marvellous slows
and chowders from other parts OF the moliusK.
Visitors who were here last summer showed the
how TO cook these new dishes. winning
both fame and thanks. After this il is expected
that all parts of the scallop will be utilized
greatly TO the disappointment OF the guIis and
other sea nlrds, which have fed on scallop offal