If a commercial scallop industry were developed, jobs would be available in cultivation and supporting businesses like net and gear manufacturing.

This shift is particularly true in the scallop industry.

The baymen have hit upon hard times as a result of the commercial fishing ban on striped bass and the decline of the scallop industry.

The scallop industry in its heyday brought baymen between $1.5 million and $2 million a Now most baymen "do everything," Mr. Grothe said.

Contamination with PCB's eliminated the striped-bass fishery, and the mysterious brown tide has wiped out the scallop industry on the East End.

By the late 1990's the scallop industry was almost completely wiped out.

But if what happened to the scallop industry in the Peconic Bay is any indication, the lobstermen have little to look forward to.

The scallop industry in Long Island may be threatened by the reappearance of a mysterious algal bloom after a two-year absence.

The Island's scallop industry is at the most risk.

The value of the commercial catch from the Sound's clam and scallop industry alone fell from $110 million in the late 1970's to $40 million in 1986.