Hi, everyone!
This thread brings back memories of dining on Placopecten magellanicus when I was living in Newfoundland. I enjoyed them in restaurants and also at home, courtesy of good friends who would go SCUBA diving for them. My wife and I would have them pan-fried or baked in a delicious casserole. The other commercially-obtained species, Chlamys islandicus, is smaller, and I remember having only one or two meals of them. P. magellanicus is now harder to obtain in Newfoundland, but now there is a thriving fishery for C, islandicus in my former home town.
I have eaten plenty of the Korean Mizuhopecten yessoensis but I don't think they are as tasty as the big Placopecten.
Regards from Korea!
Ron Noseworthy
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On Wed, 11/19/14, Harry Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Diving for scallops article on dive site
To: [log in to unmask]
Received: Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 2:07 AM
Nice story; thanks, Tom.
Perhaps of relevance here are the facts that I grew up in NJ
and shared
some of the writer's childhood aspirations: I believe
the scallops in
play here are Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin,
1791), which is
limited to offshore waters. To the north, e.g., ME and
maritime Canada.
one may fing them living in lesser depths that those one
must plumb in NJ
to find them.
The posted chronicle and its analysis reveal some major
disconnects for
us malacologists, to wit:
Anatomy: The (most) edible portion of the Sea Scallop is
the
adductor, not the abductor muscle. As with the
majority of
bivalves, abduction is effected by the hinge
ligament.
Taxonomy: Although the picture of the frying pan
contains the
adductor muscles of the harvested Sea Scallops, the
close-ups of the
living animal(s) depict a not-so-closely-related species
(co-opted from
the www as stated by the author).
Nomenclature: Gmelin (1791: 3317-3318:
<
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10290#page/297/mode/1up>)
named Ostrea magellanica from the Straits of Magellan
- several
thousand miles from the nearest living populations.
Harry
[Gmelin, J.F.] Linné, C. a, 1791. Systema naturae per
regna tria
naturae. Editio decima tertia. vol. 1(6). Emanuel Beer,
Leipzig. Pp.
3021-3909. [Vermes testacea 3202-3748].
Gmelin
At 08:16 PM 11/16/2014, Tom Ball wrote:
Enjoyable article on diving for
scallops on the ScubaBoard website:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/content/844-diving-scallops.html?utm_source=eNewsletterPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ScubaBoard_News_Recap__1245
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