Around here the people fishing for sharks love them. Been getting 9,10,11 foot Lemon Sharks off a pier. (Safely returned after photos).
BullG8r
Loc: Navarre, FL. (Panhandle of FL)
A fool proof way to know if what you are being served is truly scallops or some stamped out ray or otherwise is to cut the scallop in half, then look at the exposed white meat for tell-tale evidence. If the flesh is tubular and looks like a vertical stack of soda straws in an old drug store dispenser, its a scallop. If the exposed flesh is flaky or non-tubular, its something beside a scallop and you have been scammed.
Wv mike wrote:
What kinda critter is this. Where do you catch them. Can you eat them. Do they fight hard. What do they eat. Are they dangerous. Unscramble this they are musky candy. KRUCSE.
It looks like a skate to me. if it is, you take a 1 inch leather punch and lay the fish on some wood and punch slugs out od the thick muscle tissue in the middle. tastes just like scallops!
fishrmans
Loc: Waushara Cnty Wisconsin and Port Charlotte Fl
Larry B wrote:
If it’s a salt water ray, they can’t be harvested in S Florida
Who told you that? I know you can keep 2 a day or 100 lbs.
this is a spiny skate. the cod fishing boats in nj used to put out trot line before fishing for cod. you would get a number, when they retrieved the trot line fish wwould come up and sometimes it would be a skate. instead of a cod. people would take the skates. they say they stamp wings for moch scallops. i used to work a commercial scallop boat too and you cant immitate the taste of a fresh sea scollop.
No they can't. Scallops melt in your mouth, skate is chewy
True , want to see a big one ?
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