Just before dawn breaks over the Noia estuary in Spain’s Galicia region, hundreds of women descend by torchlight into the waist-deep waters to gather cockles and clams from the riverbed using techniques that have been passed down through generations. Wearing windproof jackets over their wetsuits, they dredge up shellfish from the nutrient-rich silt of Galicia’s chilly Atlantic estuaries — known as Rias — using nothing more than long-handled rakes attached to metal baskets.

Fisherwomen in northwest Spain's Galicia passing on traditions to new generation. (2021, December 6). BusinessWorld, p. S1/5.