{"id":337132,"date":"2026-07-11T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337132\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:58:10","slug":"first-weekend-of-pasco-county-scallop-season-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337132\/","title":{"rendered":"First weekend of Pasco County Scallop Season gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0If snakes <a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/07\/10\/florida-s-2026-python-challenge-underway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">aren&#8217;t your thing<\/a>, maybe scallops are! Scallop Season in Pasco County is happening now.<\/p>\n<p>The season runs through August 18, so you have plenty of time to get out on the water and harvest them.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said that people can only do scalloping <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/fishing\/saltwater\/recreational\/bay-scallops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">by hand, or by using a landing or dip net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a two-gallon daily bag limit.<\/p>\n<p>Scallop season kicked off last week in Citrus and Hernando counties.<\/p>\n<p>The season there runs through September 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0If snakes aren&#8217;t your thing, maybe scallops are! Scallop Season in Pasco County is happening now.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1011,274,1563,1190,2200,115,1338,275,135,137,136,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-337132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-top-stories","tag-environment","tag-human-interest","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-pasco-county","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}