Wash the floating mud and miscellaneous algae on the shells with seawater, pick out the broken ones, divide them into 3 specifications according to their sizes, and put them into containers with ice to cool down, so that the temperature can be kept at 3℃-5℃. Ice melting water must not come into contact with the scallops.

Scallops can also be loaded into bushels (bushels pre-soaked with seawater), bundled with straw rope, or into wicker baskets containing woven bags, baskets around the mouth and soaked with seawater kelp grass liner, cover. Transported by car or boat, to prevent wind, sun and rain; scallop shells are not closed tightly, low vitality, out of the water soon after death. Scallop optimal growth temperature 10 ℃ -25 ℃, off-water scallops can not be placed above 10 ℃, 2 ℃ below the environment, not to mention direct contact with hot and cold surfaces. Scallops bagged, moist state can live 1-2 days.