Scallop Season Cut

AP:

"PORTLAND -- Maine's scallop draggers and divers have been dealt a blow after regulators canceled the second half of the state scallop season.

The Department of Marine Resources had already cut the season to 70 days, down from 132 days last year.

The first half of the season ran from Dec. 1 to Jan. 4, with the second half set to run from Feb. 25 to March 31.

Deputy Commissioner David Etnier says the second half of the season has now been canceled to help the declining scallop population. He says the resource is in bad shape for a number of reasons, but that the only factor regulators can control is the human element."