Bay scallop season is open - don't break the rules

Bay scallop season is open for recreational harvesters through mid-September and if you decide to take part remember there is a daily bag limit.

Recreational harvesters are limited to 2 gallons of whole bay scallops in the shell or 1 pint of bay scallop meat per person.

There is also a daily vessel limit of one half gallon of bay scallop meat.

And if you try get away with more than that you might have to deal with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as four harvesters discovered last week. 

Officer Hal Webb stopped a vessel in St. Joe Bay to conduct an inspection and discovered that the four people on board had gone over their limit.

They tried to claim that they had actually harvested some of the scallops the day before, but even so they still had a pint more than the daily vessel limit allows.

The captain of the boat was issued a citation. 

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