The term Scallop can refer to any bivalve, however, when it comes to scallops as endangered, it depends on which kind of scallop. The Great Scallop found around the coasts of Great Britain is endangered. Shells build from calcium in the water. Acidic water harms that process. The seas are significantly more acidic then they were a hundred years ago. So the shells are having difficulty making their shells. The ocean is also absorbing most of the extra heat and the water temperature is harming the sea creatures.
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ESA JOURNAL LIBRARY - HOW MANY SCALLOPS ARE THERE ANS WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Excerpt: Scallops (Order Pectinida) have had a tumultuous existence over the past 245 million years, bearing witness to numerous transformations in ocean conditions and surviving two mass extinctions...
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