DISCO SCALLOPS

(A conversation with marine biologist Bryce Stewart) For someone who's never thought about where their scallop comes from — what should they know first? In the UK there are three ways scallops are caught. Most are dredged - steel devices dragged along the seabed that disturb everything in their path, catching things fishermen don't want: rays, sharks, starfish. Then there are divers, swimming along the seabed and picking by hand. And then there's the {most exciting} new kid o

For centuries, fishing seems to have had one direction of travel: efficiency. Bigger boats, longer trips, heavier gear, more sea covered, more taken out. The logic was seductive in its simplicity: maximise yield, maximise profit. The problem is the ocean doesn't work like a spreadsheet. And we're all starting to see the bill. The result of this intensification is fisheries that are less resilient, marine habitats that are less able to recover, and a sea that is quietly, incre

It's been a hot minute. In our defence, we've had reasons; Disco Scallops is built by a group of engineers, scientists, marketeers and restaurateurs, all with day jobs. But also all with a shared conviction that scallop fishing can and should look very different to how it looks today. When you're trying to build a new fishery from scratch, the blog occasionally gets sacrificed at the altar of actually doing the thing. But that changes now (we hope). We're committing to a mini

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