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Old 07-16-2011, 05:58 AM
 
Location: Charlotte county, Florida
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Hey everyone,

I'd like to know if anyone knows of a place to get some fresh scallops here local.
I'm trying to not go to Publix and my winn dixie does not have them at this time due to limited space (as per their seafood guy)

Any help would be appreciated I have a houseguest from NY who's wife wont allow them to be cooked in the house..
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Old 07-16-2011, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Punta Gorda and Maryland
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Hey everyone,

I'd like to know if anyone knows of a place to get some fresh scallops here local.
I'm trying to not go to Publix and my winn dixie does not have them at this time due to limited space (as per their seafood guy)

Any help would be appreciated I have a houseguest from NY who's wife wont allow them to be cooked in the house..

Thats funny - my barber just informed me that they have gone on a scallop snorkelling trip up just north of Tampa. They fill two five gallon buckets per boat when they go. Evidently during the summer they go once a month. I am going when I get get back in August. Evidently the locally (gulf) harvested scallops are very good.
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Old 07-16-2011, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Port Charlotte, FL
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This place carries fresh scallops. Give them a call or stop by.

Harbor Seafood and Meats
3762 Tamiami Trail
Port Charlotte, FL
941-764-3474
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Old 07-16-2011, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Charlotte county, Florida
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Thanks a bunch, I should have posted here a week ago when we first thought of making them for him.
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Old 07-19-2011, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Charlotte county, Florida
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I had no idea "fresh" Scallops were 3 days old.. The man from the market said he recived them Saturday.. I called Monday.

So I called this morning and was Told the Season on Bay Scallops was short So they get them frozen..maybe even from china....

Weird but, The Florida Fish and Game site says.. And I quote..

"The harvest season for bay scallops begins July 1 and continues through Sept. 10. Open scalloping areas on Florida's Gulf Coast extend from the west bank of the Mexico Beach Canal in Bay County to the Pasco-Hernando county line near Aripeka."..

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Florida Bay Scallop Season Opens July 1 (http://capmel.com/ScallopSeasonOpensJuly1.htm - broken link)


Everyone.and I do mean every single store or market I tried Gets their Bay scallops from China..

The sea scallops come from New England..
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Old 07-19-2011, 01:48 PM
 
Location: Port Charlotte, FL
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Well isn't that something. Why do they say they are fresh scallops then? I guess you have to catch your own. I don't even know where or how you would do that. Ask Fishin Franks - web site: Fishin' Frank's
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Old 07-19-2011, 01:57 PM
 
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Well isn't that something. Why do they say they are fresh scallops then?
I've always thought of "fresh" as never being processed or frozen. It would be rare to find a seafood market that sold fish as it came off the boat. I mean, if you go to a good restaurant that serves "delicious farm fresh eggs" do you ask if the hen laid them that morning? If they're 2-3 days old, they're fresh from the farm.

More important when it comes to fish like tilapia and salmon, is that it isn't farm grown. They can be very fresh, but they're not natural or healthful.
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Old 07-20-2011, 09:26 AM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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Florida oranges are cheaper in the northeast than they are in Florida. It makes no sense. There is all of that agriculture in the middle of the state, plus the seafood, yet it seems like the majority is shipped away. I can get more Florida products now that I live in Tennessee.

Maybe they did you a favor. I don't know if I'd trust gulf scallops with all the corexit in the water. They say all the oil and chemicals dissipated. Yeah, sure it did.

I buy wild, not farmed, seafood from Alaska, New England or the Carolinas.

Grocery stores -- the big chains -- buy all their seafood from China or other parts of Asia or South America. It's scary stuff and I wouldn't eat it.

Good scallops -- dry-packed -- cost about $25 a pound.
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Old 07-20-2011, 09:38 AM
 
Location: Port Charlotte, FL
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Well Tam.. Your reply sounds kind of sarcastic..

No Biggie. I just wanted to say someything....

It smell like horse ****.. I wont recommed you to my friends....

Smell like horse ****..pretyy much...is Horse****..

You stink...
I take offense to this. I was only trying to help you. I am definitely not a sarcastic person in any way whatsoever. Ask anyone who knows me. I really meant that maybe you could catch your own. I don't eat scallops and have never caught them, but thought it might be something nice to do if you could do it. Fishin Franks is a good resource. And the place I gave that said they have fresh scallops, well my neighbor uses them. Boy, sorry for trying to help someone. I guess I don't know enough about the subject of scallops.
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Old 07-20-2011, 10:58 AM
 
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Let me try and lighten up this thread....we live in Wisconsin. Our favorite local restaurant has Grouper on his menu nearly all the time. He told us that a woman asked him if the Grouper was fresh. He couldn't believe he had to explain to her there are no oceans anywhere near Wisconsin!!!

(Caligula...chill dude.)
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