An imprint of a Peconic Bay Scallop is added to each of my prints providing a mark of where the artwork originates.

The Peconic Bay Scallop has an important cultural and economic history here in East Hampton town. Bay scallops live in the shallow waters of our local bays and harbors. Each fall for over a century Baymen would set out to harvest the bay scallops in local waters ands their families would shuck the bounty in preparation for market. Over the past century scallop catches have boomed, busted and are currently are in peril. The bay scallops demise has been contributed to brown tide, over harvesting, introduction of pathogens/parasites, effects of ocean acidification, loss of habitat and stresses from warming water temperatures.

Restoration efforts have helped the bay scallops from extinction. In 2006 intense restoration efforts by LIU and Cornell Cooperative Extension by way of planting millions of hatchery raised bay scallops in nets and directly to the bottom have yielded good results.