This is my machine.
He wakes up early to go to the sea in his machine, his boat. This is the life of Jacobo, a fisherman from Redondela who belong to the Cesantes cofrady. He arrived to sea after studying Electronics and spending five years of working at Vigo's Citroën factory. Jacobo bring us in his boat to show us how he gathers shellfish, the technique to find the clams. It is a question of luck and calm. He likes his job, because he decides his own rythm.
The sea gives life.
Fishermen, fismongers, preserved fish factories and gatherers of shellfish. Different jobs, related jobs. All of them is based on the sea and fishes are their daily tool. From Ocean to the consumer's plates, the sea food pass through their hands in some moment of the process. Baltasar Rodríguez, the fishermen's boss of Rianxo, a fishmonger and a gatherer of shellfish also from Rianxo and Vicente Escurís, commercial director of the preserved sea food factory Luís Escurís Batalla, tell us how is their daily job, with its advantages and inconvenients. They have a common idea about their job: it really worth.
Mountain and estuaries.
Rianxo, Pobra do Caramiñal, Ribeira, Boiro and Porto do Son are the towns of the Barbanza Peninsule. From the central mountain chain, you can make out the estuaries of Rías Baixas, and watch all along the Arousa and Muros and Noia estuaries. The Barbanza peninsule is one of the populated areas from Galicia, with 102.981 inhabitants. Beaches like O Vilar, impressive viewpoints like A Coruta and natural parks like Corrubedo, and also historic landmarks like the celtic fort of Baroña or the megaliths of the Barbanza mountains are some of the natural and historical attractions of this area.
Hake with aromatic herbs.
We go to the market with Xosé Cannas, cook of the Pepe Vieira Camiño da Serpe Restaurant, in Sanxenxo, to buy a nice hake and prepare it. With its loin, clams, a asparagus and different aromatic herbs, he cook for us a tasteful fish.