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Beche De Mer
(Sea Cucumber)

Also known as Southern Scallop or Commercial Scallop.

Tasmanian scallops have a thin shell, nearly circular and strengthened by radiating ribs.  In life the scallops rest on their paler, more convex lower valve which slightly overlaps the darker, flat or slightly concave upper valve. 

Tasmanian scallops are found in Australia's southern waters from mid New South Wales down and around to mid Western Australia.  They are found to depths of at least 120 metres over bare, soft sand or mud.

Scallops feed by filtering plankton and detritus from the water.  They are preyed upon by starfish and octopus.

Tasmanian scallops are taken commercially in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania.  They are caught using box-shaped mud dredges 2m to 3.5m wide.  The dredges may be fitted with teeth.  As the dredge is dragged along the bottom, the teeth dig into the mud, lifting the scallops so that they are caught in the dredge basket.  Each dredge run lasts up to 15 minutes, after which it is lifted and emptied. The boat then reverses direction and fished back the other way. 

Scallops belong to the Pectinidae family. They have fan-shaped bivalve shells with deep ridges that radiate from the hinge. Colours are variable, including brown, orange, yellow, pink or flesh-coloured or a mix of these. The upper valve of the shell is flat, and the lower valve is concave.

See also:  Queensland Scallop

SCALLOP RECIPES

Recipes for Scallops from How To Cook Fish.info

Scallops on shell	Scallop Meat Roe On	Scallops on Shell, on ice
Scallop on half shell with roe	scallop meat without roe	scallops with roe inside scallop shells

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