Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Scallop aquaculture is the commercial activity of cultivating (farming) scallops until they reach a marketable size and can be sold as a consumer product. Wild juvenile scallops, or spat, were collected for growing in Japan as early as 1934. [ 1 ]
Peconic Bay scallops, like all bay scallops, are functional hermaphrodites that release both sperm and eggs alternately in the course of a single spawning event; spawning in the Peconic Bays usually begins between late May and mid-July, but spawn seasons have been recorded starting as late as September and October. [4]
The scallops can be harvested and commercialized to several markets around the world. In most growth areas, the harvesting of natural grown scallops has been replaced by aquaculture operations. The aquaculture operations consist in re-stocking the natural areas, taking care of the scallops along the grow out period and harvesting at the end of ...
Pecten maximus, common names the great scallop, king scallop, St James shell or escallop, is a northeast Atlantic species of scallop, an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. This is the type species of the genus.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
Placopecten magellanicus, previously listed as Pecten tenuicostatus and as Pecten grandis [2] and once referred to as the "giant scallop", common names Atlantic deep-sea scallop, deep sea scallop, North Atlantic sea scallop, American sea scallop, Atlantic sea scallop, or sea scallop, [3] is a commercially important pectinid bivalve mollusk native to the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
The pink scallop is found on the Pacific Coast of North America at depths down to about 300 metres (980 ft). Its range extends from Alaska to San Diego, California but it is more common in the northern half of this range. It is also found in Kamchatka, the Sea of Okhotsk and Japan. [3] It is found on rocks or on sandy or muddy sea beds. [2]
Chlamys hastata, the spear scallop, spiny scallop or swimming scallop, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae found on the west coast of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to San Diego, California. A limited number of these scallops are harvested by divers or by narrow trawls off the west coast of Canada.