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“We continue to see skates, various fishes, lobsters and sand dollars, and in places, huge amounts of scallops.”

November 19, 2012
Up close and personal with scallops

Photo: Janet Nelson

We continue to see skates, various fishes, lobsters and sand dollars, and in places, huge amounts of scallops. In the past ten days we have conducted 71 scallop dredge tows and processed 15, 979 scallops. We also took over 4 million images with the HabCam in 691 nautical miles of this leg. We have been a little busy." - Janet Nelson
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