These ancestral activities still continue today as best as they can. It is true that professional seashore fishermen are now a rare sight, since many of them are now retired. If they continue this tradition, it is more out of pleasure than profitable business.

Hulls with low tide
The searching for cockles at low tide has become a leisure activity, even though generations of fishermen earned a living from the sale of this shellfish. In 1983, fifty cockle fishers still made a living from their work.

The fish fishing
Catching fish (plaice, sole, flounder, bass) is done with fixed gill and "bénâtre" nets. "Tésures" (pronounced d’zures), stationary nets stretched on pikes in river channels, capture shrimps and prawns.


 Tésures

Spring tides
These days, spring tides attract crowds of amateurs. They gather oysters, (among which the famous "horse’s hoof"), cockles, clams or fish for shrimps with a "dranet" (Ille-et-Vilaine) or a "bichette" (Manche). The size of catches is subject to regulation which aims to maintain stocks.