The Peconic Bay scallop season set to end next month has registered another period of decline but research and hatchery efforts are helping rebuild the East End’s fragile shellfish population.

Peconic Bay scallops, after three consecutive years of early-season die-offs, are making a late-season comeback with just a week remaining in the harvest. Seafood shops from Hampton Bays to Southhold ...

There is renewed optimism for Long Island’s Peconic Bay scallop population, as biologists work on a plan to save the region's aquaculture industry. Scallop die-offs in Peconic Bay have happened each ...

Usually during November, veteran scalloper Chris Tehan would be on the Peconics — his boat dredging for the prized mollusk living in the pair of bays squeezed between Long Island's North Fork and ...

It’s scallop season here in NYC, with the arrival of the prized Peconic Bay scallops from Long Island’s North Fork. “The season started on the first Monday in November,” says Stephanie Villani of Blue ...

Stephen Tettelbach was surveying the bay scallop population in Nantucket with colleagues late in the summer of 2019 when he got the call: A longtime friend and fisherman on Long Island reported a mass ...

George W. Bush, as recently revealed, may like his scallops about as much as his dad likes broccoli, but perhaps that’s because he’s never had the pleasure of tucking into a plateful of the Peconic ...

The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation and marine scientists have discovered that a parasite is the reason why scallops in Peconic Bay have died. Stony Brook University scientists ...