Shellfish deputies with the Fairhaven Marine Resources Department (on barge) and crew from the fishing vessel (on trailer), remove 71 bushels of quahogs from the trailer to the Fairhaven Harbomaster’s barge on 8/17/23, so they can be transplanted in North Cove. Photo by Beth David.
The Fairhaven Harbormaster has been transplanting quahogs in North Cove the last couple of weeks, and should finish up in a few days. The program takes quahogs from the Taunton River, which is polluted, and places them in clean waters. The quahogs are naturally cleaned out from the action of the tides in clean waters in about a year. So, North Cove is closed until next season providing the quahogs test as safe to consume. This year’s program will transplant 800 bushels in North Cove.
On Thursday, 8/17/23, Fairhaven Harbormaster Timothy Cox shows the average size of this year’s batch of quahogs that are being transplanted in North Cove. Photo by Beth David.
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