{"id":44369,"date":"2024-06-14T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=44369"},"modified":"2024-06-13T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T21:54:49","slug":"scallop-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=44369","title":{"rendered":"Scallop season!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-14-Scallop-sorter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-14-Scallop-sorter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-14-Scallop-sorter.jpg 496w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-14-Scallop-sorter-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida\u2019s recreational scalloping season begins Saturday off the shores of Taylor and Dixie County. This year, Florida Sea Grant (FSG) and the University of Florida\u2019s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF\/IFAS) are introducing a newly-designed orange and blue scallop sorting tool. The free tool, available at select locations, is an orange acrylic square featuring a 2-inch diameter hole. A blue wristband helps secure the device. By comparing a scallop shell to the hole, harvesters can determine whether the size of their catch complies with sustainable practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s recreational scalloping season begins Saturday off the shores of Taylor and Dixie County. This year, Florida Sea Grant (FSG) and the University of Florida\u2019s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF\/IFAS) are introducing a newly-designed orange and blue scallop sorting tool. The free tool, available at select locations, is an orange acrylic square featuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,1145],"class_list":["post-44369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-scallop-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44373,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369\/revisions\/44373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}