Scallop Harvesting

Have you ever heard of Niantic Bay? We used to go catch scallops (they are like a clam, but their shell is shaped like the shell gas logo with the ribs) - I'd go out in the row boat with my dad and he'd go out to the front of the boat with the net. He'd scrape along the bottom of the ocean and then throw the full net back to the other end of the boat where I was. There was an old door (forming a crude table) across the boat and I would pick out all the scallops, put them in a basket, and take the rest of the debris and wipe it in the ocean. We'd do it again and we'd sit there the whole afternoon until we got a bushel of scallops. We'd listen to the Boston Red Socks game on the transistor radio and once in a while we'd take out his pocket knife and open up a few scallops and eat them raw out of the shell. I think excessive amounts of mercury erased the remainder of the memory.