A decade of prosperity has taken New Jersey's sea scallop industry a long way from the late 1990s, when fishermen thought half their number might go out of business as the government restricted shellfishing on 7,000 square miles of sea floor.
Today fertile grounds like the Elephant Trunk … an area off New Jersey named for its shape on nautical charts … provide abundant scallops at prices around $6 to $7 a pound to fishermen.
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