Coming to Terms with Aquaculture
This is the Brewer's scallop farm. Aquaculture at its finest. Here is is what Steven Hedlund, Communications and Events Manager, Global...
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Marsden Brewer
- Mar 2
- 2 min
Here's Looking- at YOU!
Here is a good quote about scallop vision from an amazing book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by...
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Marsden Brewer
- Feb 17
- 1 min
Counting For a Future
Dr. Carla Guenther. Chief Scientist for Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, writes: "Fueled by 44 North Coffee and graciously hosted by...
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Marsden Brewer
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Sexy Scallop Valentine
Farmed scallops are grown in lantern nets which means the male and female scallops are quite cosy, in close proximity to one another. So...
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Marsden Brewer
- Feb 2
- 1 min
Some Really Cool Things about Scallops
Have you been complaining lately about February's cold weather? You have company there. Farmed scallops do not tolerate being hauled up...
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Marsden Brewer
- Jan 26
- 1 min
Our Cookbook Goes International!
Oh, I recognize that photo! Nice photos but it does not appear to be in Japanese.... Our scallops a different species from those in...
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Marsden Brewer
- Jan 9
- 3 min
Know What NOAA Knows about Farming Scallops
NEWSFarming Sea Scallops in Maine December 29, 2022 Last updated byGreater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Officeon January 06, 2023 The...
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Marsden Brewer
- Jan 1
- 1 min
Happy New Year
This is a spat bag full of baby scallops. They will be the new crop of farm-raised scallops. That means they will live for some years...
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Marsden Brewer
- Dec 30, 2022
- 1 min
Word is Getting Around
Chef Rob Dumas with Marsden. Dumas is a great ally spreading the word about farmed scallops and our cookbook. Back in October the edited...
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Marsden Brewer
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
Maine Holiday Seafood Traditions, Past and Present
Natalie Springuel, host of Maine Sea Grant's Coastal Conversations, will be broadcasting a Christmas show on WERU at 89.9 and streaming...
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Marsden Brewer
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
Impact!
The best impact for our Penobscot Bay waters might just be the waves. But the Ecological Society of America and World Resources Institute...
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Marsden Brewer
- Nov 30, 2022
- 1 min
Speaking of Kelp-the habitat question
Seaweed, sea vegetables, kelp... habitat? Which is the right word? How should we be thinking of this resource? This very personal and...
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Marsden Brewer
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min
Some Real Data - More to be thankful for....
A new study from the University of Plymouth's School of Biological and Marine Sciences (in the UK) has found that aquaculture can...
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Marsden Brewer
- Nov 20, 2022
- 3 min
A Thanksgiving View: It's the Little Things That Count!
Marsden and his son Bob head out annually to collect spat. Spat? What's that? Now you now what spat is thanks to the above diagram image...
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Marsden Brewer
- Oct 27, 2022
- 1 min
Celebrate October before it's gone!
Marsden, Chef Dumas, and Marnie cook up delicious farmed scallops for the Alliance for Maine's Marine Economy video. Alliance for Maine's...
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Marsden Brewer
- Oct 15, 2022
- 2 min
Eco Judo
Ju Do- the gentle way. Yes, indeed, the scallop farmer becomes a master of the art of using the nature of the opponent’s own behavior in...
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Marsden Brewer
- Sep 17, 2022
- 1 min
What is merroir?
Wine makers in France have long known that the local conditions of soil, climate, accompanying organisms etc in their vineyards affect...
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Marsden Brewer
- Sep 14, 2022
- 1 min
Zucchini Season!
Who knew that zucchini season would be such a super time for farmed scallops? The sweet little whole scallops are nicely showing roe....
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Marsden Brewer
- Aug 29, 2022
- 1 min
Roe Roe Your Toast
So you got some large or Jumbo farmed scallops and they have roe in them. Scallops usually spawn in September and then you can expect the...
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Marsden Brewer
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
Get Out the Grill!
When you have lovely large scallops they are likely to have large roes as well. The red ones are female and the white ones male; both are...
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