With fingers crossed, not any easy thing while utilizing a keyboard, the scallop season for Gulf County and St. Joseph Bay is set to open Friday. Eight months since the adult scallop population was marked absent from the Bay by state researchers, the scallop season begins the countdown to its Sept. 15 closure with projections for a historically-bountiful harvest. All, of course, as residents and visitors are well aware, is stated with a significant caveat. None of the past three seasons have worked out as scheduled...
