A look at Spain's clam-digging 'farmers of the sea'
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Before clams become expensive dishes in restaurants in Spain, they’re first collected by a group of women who call themselves “the peasant farmers of the sea."
Ruddy-faced from the coastal winds and hard work, they wear colorful headscarves and ordinary house clothes, cutting a perfect oil-painting landscape against the striking blue sky and wispy white clouds in the chilly hours at the break of dawn.
Clam collecting in the expansive inlets of Spain’s northwestern region of Galicia is a deep-rooted tradition, handed down from generation to generation.
"My mother made me become a shellfish collector," says Mari Carmen Vázquez, 57, head of the Lourizan inlet collective of clam collectors. "There was no other future."
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