The conversions of our fishing vessels from lobster trappers to scallop draggers is complete with the installation of “shelling” (or ”shucking”) “houses” (or “huts”) behind the wheelhouses.
These temporary wooden structures are shelters from the wind where the scallops will be sorted by size and shelled (or put overboard if they are too small).
Only the muscle that the mollusks use to open and close their shells (the adductor muscle) is kept. That’s what most people call a scallop, at least in restaurants.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on December 9. 2022.)