ORLANDO, Fla. — Crystal River‘s visitors can embark on a unique underwater scavenger hunt with the reward of meaty morsels of shellfish as scalloping season is well underway. Charters are ready to ...

Like oysters and mussels, the scallops we eat and love are bivalve mollusks, and are actually adductor muscles, joining together both halves of the sea creatures' shells and allowing them to literally ...

Bay scallops live in seagrass beds, which provide structure and cover for juveniles. An eelgrass wasting disease in the 1930s decimated bay scallop habitat in Virginia, leading to a local extinction.

Scallops were thought to be close to extinct on the Eastern Shore and lower Chesapeake Bay, but research efforts from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have produced exponential growth in the ...

First came the news that oyster harvests in the Chesapeake Bay during the last couple of years have been the best in three decades. Now we learn that bay scallops, long thought to be more or less ...

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