Cultivate of mussel
In the cultivate of the Mussel of Galicia the health totally is
guaranteed, in its manipulation use will not become of
medicines, or pharmaceutical or chemical products. The
Galician cultivators are limited to place mussel in the cords of
the tray of the most efficient form so that the same one
obtains the best feeding of the sea, the phytoplankton.
The cultivate of Mussel of Galicia is made in tray, that is a
floating breeding ground constituted by a wood framework of
eucalyptus of more or less rectangular form on which the
cords of mussel are tied and that stays suspended by means of a system of floaters.
The cords used for the culivate usually measure of 12 to 18
m.s, and take put in each 40 cm. plastic or wood small sticks
whose mission is to distribute the weight of mussel throughout
all the cord, preventing so this one is given off.
The sector of the mussel, with 3,337 trays, generates about
11,500 jobs direct (of which 8,500 are fixed) and 7,000 indirect
and a volume of annual invoicing that oscillates between 90 and
110 million Euros, constituting a strategic sector in the
economic, present and future development, of the Galician
community.
Galician Mussel
Calamay
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