Market Friday at the port

I’m back home and doing ok but still very run down and probably won’t be online much today but luckily I had a few posts prepared in advance including this one

Thanks for all the kind comments and support

But as some call me Mr positive here’s a positive spin on the last few days I have been saying I need to loose weight recently well I did that lost just under 7lbs in 3 days

A post for Market Friday hosted by Hive account@dswigle, if you haven't followed her yet you should she is one of the kindest and most supportive people here on Hive, a comment from her is like a ray of sunshine on your page.
This is the one tag and challenge that I always make a point of joining, and also look through the posts of others that join the challenge and seeing markets from all around the world.

For this weeks post, I thought I would share some details or I could say tools of the trade on some of the commercial fishing boats in the port here in New Bedford.
I have mentioned before it is the busiest fishing port in the country, to give an idea of how much, on average 1 million pounds of seafood enters and exits the port by truck, rail, and boat every day.
Back in 1840 when Whaling was the big thing here, New Bedford was the wealthiest city in the world

So these fishing tools end up supplying a lot of the fish around the country to various markets

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Now I am no expert on the fine art of fishing, whether with a rod of a pier , in a river or on a beach, neither on the commercial fisherman's work, but I do think those yellow things in this next shot are lobster traps.

Now New Bedford or even Massachusetts does not catch the most Lobsters, that goes to the state of Maine

however New Bedford is known for its scallops
New Bedford scallops are prized around the world. Each year, nearly 50 million pounds of sea scallops land on New Bedford docks. During the height of the season, 500,000 pounds of scallop meats cross our docks in a single day.

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A bunch of buoys and floatation thingies and a few more traps

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And yet even more

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and a last shot to finish off this post, but now I am thinking I see all these what I think are Lobster traps, in this post, I wonder how Scallops are caught, maybe with some other devices I have seen, I think but am not sure they use trawls or dredge type things to get scallops

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And that’s all folks

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