Shellfishing for cockles
Be it hardwork for the two hundred or so families living around the Baie de Somme who make their living from the traditional pêche à pied, or a low-tide leisure-time activity for others, the food-gathering adventure is the same--a treasure hunt for the heart-shaped coques. Iodine and big horizons guaranteed.
Vocabulary
pêche à pièd: shellfishing
une coque, un hénon: a cockel
hénonier, hénonière (pêcheur de coques): cockel fisherman, fisherwoman
Click here to see a video filmed at the Baie de Somme showing how the coques are scooped up.
Photos courtesy of Marianne Lecron
©2011 P.B. Lecron
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