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The elver fishing fleet of San Juan de la Arena

Soto del Barco, Avilés, Asturias

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The elver fishing fleet of San Juan de la Arena

Curiosity · Soto del Barco, Avilés, Asturias

Image of Soto del Barco, not of the place itself.

Between November and March, on moonless nights, eighty or a hundred boats work the mouth of the Nalón trailing small nets after elvers; the village passes for the elver capital of Spain and its fish market handles thousands of kilos each season.

Photo: Ivan Gonzalez (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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