Except as provided in sections seventy and seventy-three, no person shall take scallops between April first and the following October first from the flats or coastal waters of the commonwealth, or buy or sell or have in possession scallops so taken.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 71
Close season on scallops
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