Purse seine netting, Muros

Small crayfish...we think

Gig fishing

Solo gig fishing

Clamming rigs.  Rakes sometimes 40 feet long, handled by two.

Mussel barges (viveros).  A truly organized and productive aspect of the Spanish fishery.

Viveros by radar...distinctive.beds at 5 o'clock

Up close barge with hanging gnarly growth cables.

Tending & harvesting...quite mechanized in the lifting, stripping, cleaning and bagging of the product. As long as the Rias are clean, the work can go on.

Shore side operation, also mechanized and very busy. 

Motorized conveyor belts taking bagged-on-the-boat mussels directly into the refrigerated truck for transport. Accounting happens elsewhere.

Clamming rakes for deep water. All manual labor.

Teams of two, sometimes man and wife.

The catch, and a rather good one, carried to the weigh station or directly to the restaurant, wherever the price is better.  Some always make it home.

Wholesale weigh station using the chit system.

Sardines...

Shells...

Octopus in all it's glory.

And the price includes cleaning...

...and advice on preparation and cooking.

Well defined family clamming plot, tended by the womenfolk...

This is a commercial operation and may support a small family.

This octopus is destined for home and is being "tenderized", i.e. beaten to a pulp, dockside to make the wife happy.

Done...unless it wiggles.

Seafarers social and living quarters.

fish in bins are identified and tagged...

Wiegh station man...or woman...

Weight chit...

Auctioneer allows knowledgeable clients to resort the bins 

Sold to Smokey Joe's...

Rape (monkfish) off to the restaurant

They call it "the ugly fish that the Spanish love".