This is how barnacles are caught this Christmas

• The most expensive Christmas dinner Hake, grapes and whiskey lead the rises

The barnacles of O Roncudo, in the province of A Coruña, go out to the cliffs to capture these crustaceans that become the

of Christmas.

This activity is extremely complex, since the barnacles have to wait for

to jump onto the rocks of the cliffs.

There, they have to dodge the waves and hold on to the rocks while they are captured.

This winter, a storm has meant that the barnacles have not been able to go out to fish and

This explains why, later in the markets, their prices reach up to

.

A fairly high price for these Galician barnacles, considered the best in the world.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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