Sea Scallops (live east coast divers)

So we have posted in the past and some what recently about doing dish's with fresh sea scallops. Including our sashimi scallop dish. These are what we get in exactly every other day from our east coast fish purveyors. These are basically a u 10 once shucked and cleaned. So as you can see there is a lot more to a scallop than most people know. They have a rim of very small tentacle like spores all along the upper and bottom front opening of the shell that when submerged is able to tell them whats around for food and danger. They have a very large stomach and digestive tract and many have a lot of foreign objects as sand and such. The most interesting thing to me is that the scallop grows so much through out its life as does its shell. The reason being is that contrary to most peoples belief scallops do not just sit still. They propel their way through the water using the mussel (scallop) to inhale and then push out water to move the scallops along the bottom of the body of water they are living in. Anyways here are a few shots for those newbies...