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COVID-19 related scallop price drop troubling one week before US season

'When talking to a lot of the vessels, I’m a little fearful for April 1' -- Cassie Canastra, marketing director of the Buyers and Sellers Exchange

By Jason Huffman | March 26, 2020 18:54 GMT
Scallops on display at the Lund's Fisheries booth at Seafood Expo North America 2019. Photograph by Jason Huffman.
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The signs on the floor of the New Bedford, Massachusetts, seafood auction on Wednesday – just one week before the April 1 start of the new Atlantic sea scallop season -- were ominous for harvesters and buyers given the recent damage the COVID-19 pandemic has done to other markets [...]

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