date:Mar 21, 2014
The numbers were sometimes hard to believe on Tuesday during the 10th annual buyers' visit and tour of the New Bedford scallop industry.
As the group of buyers from all over the world filled Richie Canastra's online auction room, the price of U-10 scallops from the fishing vessel Inspiration pushed past $17 per pound.
That made boat owner Knute Aarsheim very, very happy as he and his son Keith, the boat's captain, watched the beady but beautiful numbers on the big flat-screen auction display.