July 5, 2005 Trip report

[Boston Diver Services]

The following is extracted from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Notice dated June 10, 2005: " The following species and products are prohibited from the restricted area: all shellfish and carniverous snails, with the exception of the adductor muscle of the sea scallop......"

Our scallops are fine, not to mention delicious. P.

 

[ClassAction]

Even if you ate the organs of a lobster though, you wouldn't get any meaningful exposure to Saxitoxins from it. Lobsters aren't filter feeders.

I guess the lobster's liver (the green part) can contain the red tide toxin, though. Not sure how meaningful the exposure would be, but better safe than sorry! Last weekend, I washed the green part off the tail just in case.

http://www.mass.gov/dph/fpp/redtide.htm
Lobster tomalley (the green part or liver) is not safe to eat in general, and particularly during red tide events because this part of the lobster can build up high levels of toxins and other pollutants.

 

[MSilvia]

I guess the lobster's liver (the green part) can contain the red tide toxin, though.

Fair enough... I don't eat that part anyhow, and was thinking of the meat. It makes sense the liver would concentrate it... after all, they eat things that eat the algae.

 

[keelhaul123]

We headed out to dive the wreck of the Romance today. But rough seas combined with a stiff current sent us back into the islands for a more sheltered site. We decided that a couple of dives for scallops was in order.

Dive 1. was in 60fsw. the water temp was a balmy 67. Upon reaching the anchor we knew it was going to be a successful dive. The anchor had landed in a medium sized scallop bed. Within 35 min. we had filled the catch bags to capacity.

As we had pretty much cleaned out that bed, for dive 2. we moved a bit west in hope of catching another pile of scallops. Not much luck here. Only a few scallops but plenty of huge bugs were around.

Within a half hour the scallops were shucked and on the grill. They don't get much fresher than tha

Capt. Pat Breen
Boston Diver Services
bostondiverservices.com​

Dropped the anchor right on the scallop bed? Damn...I need to start diving with you guys!