October 5 & 6, 2024The whole sea on a plateShellfish Festival

All the Sea on a Plateau, Shellfish Festival

Saturday, October 5 and Sunday, October 6, 2024

The 21st edition of Granville’s great celebration of seafood gastronomy!

21st edition of

the big party

around seafood gastronomy

Every year, at the start of the scallop fishing season, gourmets and connoisseurs gather at the Halle à Marée in Granville to buy, taste and discover the many flavors of the Bay of Granville-Chausey.

The port of Granville

France's leading shellfish port

After centuries of cod fishing in Newfoundland, Granvillais fishermen specialized in shellfish. It was here that professional whelk fishing was officially born. Today, Granville is Europe’s leading exporter of this particularly meaty species. TheSPL des ports de la Manche, manager of the Granville fish auction since January 1, 2021, is organizing the festival in collaboration with theAssociation du Festival des Coquillages et Crustacés de Granville. The whelk, of course, but also the praire, the coquille Saint-Jacques, the amande de mer and the vénus account for 80% of Granville’s landings. When you add to this the thousands of tons ofoysters and bouchot mussels, you can safely say that Granville is the capital of shellfish!