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A huge Mantarya was caught in Peru, ~2200lbs



1000kg Manta-ray caught in Peru by small fishing vessel

Is that Travis?

Looks like a float from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Yes! I hear many rays do indeed have a scallop flavor. Some day I will spend the coin, sit down, and consume scallops until I throw up. Wish they were not so damned expensive.

I guess I never thought of eating them,

Many "scallops" that you buy are indeed, cut from rays. Real scallops usually have a small tough piece on the side where the muscle is cut from the shell.

Me, I'm willing to be fooled, as long as it tastes the same. Love 'em.

If you have a Costco around, they sell them fresh at times and they're very good.

If you find some, be careful not to overcook them.

I had heard this all my life...so...one day I took a cast net and caught the biggest sting ray I could find. I took him home, took my fillet knife and cut him up enough so I could see that there was nothing in his wings or body that looked like a scallop. I even cooked some of the meat and it was ok but not scallops. Maybe other rays are used but I can tell you, nothing in a sting ray is a scallop.

I've love scallops and I've tried a few different types of rays cooked a few different ways. There is ZERO similarity between the two! The rays were edible at best..
I think 99% of talk about scallops being punched out of ray wings is urban myth and BS..Not saying it's never happened but I just don't buy it...

Winner winner scallop dinner.













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Them folks don't look to be starving.......
Which is good.

Now Those look great, kamo

Leighton, if I ever make it within your time zone I am going to break my bank eating and drinking.
If any of that stuff taste half as good as it looks, I will be buying new clothes for the trip home.

I would tend to listen to Kamo about seafood than someone from WV.

Kamo your a seafood killin sumbitch!!

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Note the bay scallops. Here we get bay and sea scallops. I have buds who dive for them, and a friend who dredges for them commercially. Bays are often sweeter, but on average 1/3 to 1/5 the size of seas, well, I prefer the seas every time. But then I'm a shameless glutton at times--most of the time when it comes to killer seafood. I'm mortal and have faults; what can I say? No reasonable excuse.

Bay scallop shells are corrugated/scalloped, and seas are smooth, BTW.

Gari, That's some serious of the good stuff!

Leighton, you are making me hungry! Your photos are always superb. Thanks for posting!

I have fond memories of meeting my friends at the dock when they got in from dragging all day. Six pack of budweiser and a pound or two of freshly shucked scallops. Most of the time they never made it home, eat them right there on the spot. I was picky though and would only get them from fellas I knew or trusted (still am). Some guys used their buckets they shucked into for other uses that were less than sanitary.

In the early days of the Kodiak scallop fishery there were so many monster scallops it was hard to believe. And the monsters ate every bit as good as the dinks. Seared for just the briefest of times or eaten raw made little difference. It was not uncommon to eat more than a pound per person at a sitting.

But man were they expensive... $5 a pound!!!!!!!