The 2025 Peconic Bay scallop season is on track to be another disaster, according to early bay surveys, but reinforcements are on the way in the form of more than 700,000 disease-tolerant scallops.

In a survey of one of 21 sectors of the Peconic Bay off Greenport on Tuesday, Cornell Cooperative Extension aquaculture and shellfish restoration specialist Harrison Tobi donned scuba gear and traversed three separate 50-meter underwater lines in search of scallops. He surfaced with only seven juveniles in his mesh bag, and no adults of the size that baymen harvest for sale at market.

"It doesn’t look good," Tobi said, for the scallop season that starts Nov. 3 in bays across Long Island, and in the Peconic in particular.

It's the sixth year in a row that the Peconic Bay has seen historically

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