Green Plate Special: Sear ye! Sear ye! Scallop season is here For more than one reason, it's worth shelling out for Maine dayboat scallops. By Christine Burns Rudalevige Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer For local seafood evangelist Togue Braun, now is certainly the most wonderful time of the year. The holidays are great and all, but she’s more excited by the fact that ’tis the season for Maine sea scallops. Braun runs Bremen-based Downeast Dayboat and works with Maine fishermen to harvest and ship Maine scallops around the country, most of the time within 24 hours of the wild mollusks being pulled from the ocean’s floor and shucked at sea. Most of the fishermen she works with swap out their boat’s summertime lobster gear for wintertime scallop draggers to diversify their year-round income stream.