Quenton Tuckett likes to go out fishing with his buddy in Florida’s Tampa Bay. He often finds himself chasing fish in the shallows, which are a place he knows well, thanks to his work at the University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory. Not long ago, he was in the shallows trying to help jump-start the population of scallops. They like to hide in the same seagrass that a lot of fish do.
For years, he’s seen prop scarring in the seagrass—U-shaped valleys left behind after a boat propeller
