Their flavour is best if they're bought alive and cooked when very fresh. Oysters, mussels, clams, whelks and winkles are sold live or cooked; scallops are sold ready-prepared (with the intestines ...

Since the ban was announced on Aug. 24, Gen Komori, president of Tokyo-based seafood trading house Housen Co., has received inquiries for scallops from overseas but at "incredibly low prices." “ ...