When you think of oyster fishing, you will have the coasts of France in mind.
However, catching the delicacy has a long tradition in Sweden too.
Wild oysters were fished there for the king as early as the 17th century.
Because the Nordic waters are quite cold, the mussels grow more slowly.
It is said that this makes them more aromatic than their conspecifics from warmer regions.
When diving, however, one would prefer a Mediterranean climate. Lotta Klemming is sitting in her father's boat. The two are on their way to their fishing grounds. She is wrapped in a thick wetsuit, the temperatures are icy. She dives for the mussels off the islands of Grebbestad, on the west coast of Sweden about 150 kilometers north of Gothenburg. Her father gives directions from the boat where to look.
Lotta Klemming grew up in this area, not far from the Norwegian border.
Even then, her father and uncle were divers.
But she ended up in the city, to Gothenburg, where she worked in the fashion industry.
However, she felt pressured: “As a young woman, you grow up today in a very judgmental world.
I always had the feeling that I was only judged by my appearance. "Now that Lotta Klemming has been back in her home country for six years, she is better:" Here it is completely the opposite, nobody judges by appearance. "
After the dive, she brings the catch ashore with her father.
The mussels are then transported to the best restaurants in big cities such as Gothenburg and Stockholm.
And then the work starts all over again.