Fishing for Atlantic calico scallop

The Atlantic calico scallop is a small, deep-cupped scallop with rounded radiating ribs and a mottled, calico-patterned shell of white blotched with red, brown, or purple. It lives on sand bottoms of the western Atlantic from Maryland through the Gulf of Mexico. The shell reaches about 3 inches. A free-swimming scallop, it claps its valves to move in short bursts. This summary was AI generated