Seafever
Well-Known Member
I can only speak for my own personal experience here......others may have had different results.
Back starting in the early seventies and on through up to mid-eighties myself and friends made a lot of scuba dives in the local waters.
I was a scuba-instructor and semi-pro underwater photographer.
The one thing I hardly ever saw was the large variety of what we called "dinner-plate " scallops (because they were big). They were just not there in any significance.
On the west coast it's a different story. Barkley Sound used to have lots of them then.
West coast waters have a much bigger variety of underwater life generally speaking.
East coast waters there is a marked reduction of such things as soft corals, nudibranchs, etc etc. Possibly because the west coast has the nutrient rich upwellings which support them.
Since in my experience, the east coast waters never did seem to support large variety scallop growth, I'm surprised that Qualicum Scallops ever had any success with them at all.
Maybe other divers can chime in and share their experiences on whether they ever encountered large numbers of scallops on mid ECVI.
We used to find some of the smaller "Swimming Scallops" on occasion.....but those are not really big enough for commercial consideration.
Back starting in the early seventies and on through up to mid-eighties myself and friends made a lot of scuba dives in the local waters.
I was a scuba-instructor and semi-pro underwater photographer.
The one thing I hardly ever saw was the large variety of what we called "dinner-plate " scallops (because they were big). They were just not there in any significance.
On the west coast it's a different story. Barkley Sound used to have lots of them then.
West coast waters have a much bigger variety of underwater life generally speaking.
East coast waters there is a marked reduction of such things as soft corals, nudibranchs, etc etc. Possibly because the west coast has the nutrient rich upwellings which support them.
Since in my experience, the east coast waters never did seem to support large variety scallop growth, I'm surprised that Qualicum Scallops ever had any success with them at all.
Maybe other divers can chime in and share their experiences on whether they ever encountered large numbers of scallops on mid ECVI.
We used to find some of the smaller "Swimming Scallops" on occasion.....but those are not really big enough for commercial consideration.
