. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Florida, so I decided to go down and take a look for myself," Tillett says. "It didn't take me long to figure out what was going ; Tillett quickly moved his three 85- foot, steel-hulled boats from Wanchese to the Canaveral docks in September 1981. "The first three months we were there, we were making big money," he says. "But like every good thing, it comes to an end, and now things are starting to dry ; Tillett says that initially fishermen working his boats at Can
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Florida, so I decided to go down and take a look for myself," Tillett says. "It didn't take me long to figure out what was going ; Tillett quickly moved his three 85- foot, steel-hulled boats from Wanchese to the Canaveral docks in September 1981. "The first three months we were there, we were making big money," he says. "But like every good thing, it comes to an end, and now things are starting to dry ; Tillett says that initially fishermen working his boats at Canaveral were earning $1,200 to $1,500 a week, while now they earn $300 to $400. Each boat carries a four-man crew. Originally all of Tillett's crewmen were from North Carolina, but a few tired of being away from home, he says. Each crewman makes four to five trips a week, working continuously from the first trip to the last with crewmen spelling each other for meals and rest during the five- to six-day period. A boat geared for scalloping looks much like a shrimp trawler. It pulls two heavy twine nets, heavier than those used for shrimping because of the increased weight and sharp shells of the calicoes. Scallop boats also pull a heavier tickle chain (the chain which precedes the net and "tickles" the catch off the ocean floor) because they must dig deeper into the muddy bot- tom to stir up the calicoes. Tillett says he usually harvests 25 to 30 bushels of calicoes per net for each 10- to 20-minute tow. Over a single trip to the calico beds, lasting about 24 hours, one of Tillett's boats will bring in two tractor-trailor loads of scallops, taking three hours to unload from the boat. Like other North Carolina fisher- men in the Canaveral fleet, Tillett sells his scallops to North Carolina seafood processors, who truck them home for processing. Tillett is paid according to how many gallons of meat his catch yields. During late March, he was collecting eight dollars a gal
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