Conwy
My trip to North Wales to meet the Conwy ‘Mussel Men’ felt a little like going back in time. Conwy (www.conwy.com) itself is a stunning medieval town, enclosed within the walls of the town’s much intact thirteenth-century castle. So it seemed appropriate that the mussel men are still using an age-old rake fishing technique to catch their mussels.
The amazing thing about Conwy mussels is how large they are- so often, the mussels found in restaurants and supermarkets are tiny. The Conwy mussels are so large because they grow deep at the bottom of the estuary, where they have plenty to feed on from the sea and the rivers that run into the estuary. The general rule is that the deeper a mussel grows, the larger its size.
A huge thank you goes to Visit Wales (www.visitwales.co.uk) and Seafish (seafish.co.uk) for their help making this film.

