November 27th, 2012 
The annals of Scientific Mishaps has another chapter. From the Ellsworth, Maine police department:
were you driving a Blue 4 Door Chevy Car with State, “University” plates with two wreaths in the rear seat?
Do you now have a large plastic tub with cups containing scallop guts intended for a research project at the University of Maine?
My husband put them in the wrong car by mistake
Please call XXX-XXXX.
Via L.M.
They took off with a whole tub of scallop guts and didn’t even share? Awfully shellfish of them.
har har har … if only they had a hero on a halfshell who would help them.
Samples were recovered thanks to the media attention! I’m very happy to say they’re on there way back to me again.
[...] Last night while at a conference in Portland I check my Facebook page to find someone asking me if this was me. Ohmygod, I thought, I made it to Deep Sea News (at least my samples did, [...]
[...] night while at a conference in Portland I checked my Facebook page to find someone asking me if this was me. Ohmygod, I thought, I made it to Deep Sea News (at least my samples did, [...]
And the full story – ON COLBERT!
This is the best thing ever. Disclosure: I live on Mount Desert Island, just 2 miles from that scallop-gonad-black-hole the Somesville One-Stop.
[...] fisherman’s wife took to social media and soon the scallop debacle made the Deep Sea News and the Bangor Daily News. Bayer writes for and edits the blog Strictlyfishwrap and later wrote two [...]