Where do they live?

The boats that fish for red shrimp are the ones that go the furthest and return to port the latest, because they have to go very far out to cast their trawls and catch them. They are fished throughout the Mediterranean, although in recent years it has been said that, due to ocean currents and climate change, they might have spread to other seas. However, the red shrimp has only one homeland: the Mediterranean.

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The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has allocated 13 additional fishing days to the Mediterranean trawling fleet to guarantee its activity until the end of the year and ensure the supply of fish and seafood for the upcoming Christmas season, the ministry announced. This comes after a shortage of fishing days due to quotas set by the European Union. This raised fears of a shortage of fish and seafood in Catalonia. During the holidays.

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The Seafood Global congress of seafood products and companies, which will be held next month at the Fira de Barcelona, ​​​​hopes to repeat, at least, results similar to those of the last edition, when it brought together some 35,000 visitors and had an economic impact of €156 million, as explained this Thursday by Wynter Courmont, vice president of Diversified, the American company organizing the event.

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It happens more than it should, and, to be honest, we might think it's due to confusion and lack of knowledge, and not so much because they want to pass off Pacific scallops, Galician scallops, and the... washer (the three cheapest on the market) for an expensive and prized mollusk like the varied shell (the scallop(in Galician). The fact is that some (especially the Pacific scallop) and others might look similar, but they are different, very different. On the one hand, Galician scallops have a light, almost white, shell and an orange gonad. On the other hand, mixed shells have a dark shell, and their gonad is not orange but light-colored, like the rest of their body. They are bivalve mollusks, which means they have two parts, two valves, and they live in the Atlantic and also in the Mediterranean. However, there is a key difference between the two when they reach the market: mixed shells have a very high price because, in addition to the fishing bans that regulate them, their catch, when permitted, is scarce due to overexploitation, while scallops have a lower price and are caught more frequently.

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