Monday, November 14, 2011

TREASURE HUNT IN THE BAIE DE SOMME

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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