My local store sells Patagonian scallops, are these more likely, however, to be caught by and for the benefit?

Question

of Falklanders rather than Argentina?

Answer 1

Geographically they are form the southern most area of Argentina and Chile around Terra del Fiego, and are not caught, but like oysters are drawn off the ocean floor with a rake like scraper, and then the are shucked and some may be kept for local use live or in the shell.

I am a former chef from Canada and worked at a resort in a town known world wide for there scallops and worked with a number of women whom  were the wifes of scallop draggers in the Bay of Fundy around New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Canada, I saw them caught, and even shuck a few myself, the shell are saved and ironically sent to japan for processing and the resold here for use as coquelle st jacques plates.

I would say the Argentine fishermen or Chileans would, as the Falkland Islanders, I knew a guy you was stationed in the British Army there before the war, are self-sufficent, only harvesting what food they can and very little at that and any fishing is done around the island, not a commercial fleet there.