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Article: Tides slow down boat repairs; shrimper turned into scalloper.(SOUTH)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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In February, many southern boatyards were busy getting commercial fishing boats ready for the Mid-Atlantic scallop fishery' which opens March 1.
Smith's Marine Railway in Dare, Va., had the Stephanie B, an 86, x 24, wooden scalloper, on the rails. Smith's Marine Railway services most of the wooden boats in the scallop fleet out of Seaford, Va., where two large East Coast scallop businesses are based.
The Stephanie B, which was built by St. Augustine Trawler in St. Augustine, Fla., in the early 1980s, is owned by Benavidez & Sons of Seaford, Va.
The Juanita B, another Benavidez-owned wooden scalloper, was due to be hauled once the tide was big ...