No, they aren't. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39179/are-cheap...

And yet I can buy fake scallops.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/IQF-imitation-breaded...

There's a difference between "fake" and "counterfeit"; the latter is when it's fake and you're up to no good.

And lord knows no restaurant or roadside fishmonger would ever pass off those fake scallops as the real thing!! No sirree!

Note here that the FDA lists skate->scallop substitution.

https://www.fda.gov/food/seafood-guidance-documents-regulato...

Fraud accounts for up to 40% of seafood sales.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/15/revealed...

But do go on believing that Alibaba’s fake food isn’t passed off as the real thing.

I love the sarcastic tone --- it's delightful! Please keep doing that.

My point is that Alibaba is not selling counterfeit scallops. What you wrote did not contradict the comment to which you were responding.