Frank,

Two observations regarding your article today on scallops—or the lack thereof.

Two groups of friends and I were scalloping out of Yankeetown last weekend.  We ran first to Crystal River, but there was no visibility. We were in 5 feet of water.  We ran south to Homosassa and still had no visibility. We had to run south another 5 miles to get clear water. 

Then we found very few scallops.  With a total of 15 people in our three boats we got fewer than 60 scallops total.  Hopefully they are simply out in deeper water and will come in later on in the season.

What really disturbed me was the number of boats running up on a plane thorugh the “fleet.” On at least 8 occasions I saw boats come through areas where others were snorkling at a high rate of speed.  Obviously there is no excuse for this behavior.  Unfortunately, there was only one FWC boat out patrolling.

Mike Edenfield

A: Good point on people motoring through divers--a real danger. I assume everyone had dive flags up—but a lot of boaters seem not to know what those flags mean. Thanks for the update. FS