It is certainly the period of the mussels, but it is not necessarily the good year. There are lessthey are smaller and a bit more expensive. The fault of spiders of the sea, at the drought and on the rise of energy price.
These spiders appeared in the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel in quantity last year, in August-September, when they decimated the spat of mussels. What is seen on the feet of the stakes that have been eaten.
These spiders are a little less numerous this year, no doubt thanks to scaring carried out by trawlers, which dredge the funds to frighten them.
But in addition to the spiders, the mussel producers are also suffering from the drought of the past few months. Less water of rain, it is less nutrients torn from the ground, less phytoplankton in the water and therefore less food for the mussels.
And then there is the price of diesel, used by boats that go to concessions sometimes several kilometers from the coast, which has increased.
Spiders, drought, diesel, a combination that makes mussels a little more expensive this year.