Pectinidae are my all-time favorite family so far as shells go, but i
picked up a few things from the fishermen i used to go out on wild
adventures with regarding their culinary aspects as well.  For our
Placopecten magellanicus, and no doubt some other Pecten spp as well,
the adductor muscle is the only part of the beast that doesn't present
the possibility of poising, from paralytic shellfish poison (ie, demoic
acid secreted by dinoflagellates, i think - is this correct?), which is
the "dark side" of eating mollusc-flesh.  When Placopecten is grown in
"cultured" surroundings, where it pick up the Paralytic shellfish poison
bug, it is often eaten as oysters are - "down the hatch", whole!!, or
just sold as a whole animal for consumption.

Bon Apetit,
Ross.
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