The result of the work of L’Équipage®
L’Équipage® is a team of 12 men and women who work hand-in-hand all year round. In the summer season, we draft in extra support, with a good dozen or so fishermen joining our ranks to ensure that the harvesting and sorting of our mussels goes off without a hitch.
Our human-centric values, combined with a strong history with deep roots in our region, mean that you can be sure that you’ll get nothing other than exceptional, unrivaled quality from our produce.
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A mussel with character
Farmed at the heart of an exceptional natural reserve, in La Plaine-sur-Mer: A breathtakingly beautiful natural spot where bouchot mussels reproduce in the springtime.
Marie, Quentin, Steve, Romann, Kilian (who you’ll see wearing his hat no matter what the season), Remy, Philippe, Seb, Florence, Marie, Jenny, and our seasonal crew… Meet the team, or L’Équipage® as we call them — the folks who take on an incredible mission each year to offer you mussels with unrivaled character… It’s all hands on deck — we’re not kidding when we say our mussels have big characters.
In summer, l’Équipage® offer you incomparable freshness, harvesting the mussels on a daily bases. Cleaned and graded, our shelled treasure is then sorted by hand so that we only keep mussels that meet our high standards: They need to have a solid and clean shell, containing flavorful meat, with a regular size and an unmistakable salty flavor that transports you to the coastline from the first taste!
The breeders’ work
In our basin, where the mussels grow, they enter a reproduction cycle around the month of March. The male mussel and the female mussel send their sperm and eggs into the water, where they fertilize to create larvae. This larvae, known as spat, is too heavy to remain suspended in the water and seeks out something to attach itself to while it develops.
We stretch ropes made with NATURAL coconut fiber between the stakes, layering them, and we call these “phone line networks”. The spat develop until they develop into baby mussels, measuring just 1 to 5 mm. Then, usually around the month of May, we detach the ropes to sell them from basins that are free from any natural catchments (particularly in Northern Brittany and Normandy).
L’Epicerie De La Mer
Looking for somewhere to buy our delicious Equipage Bouchot mussels? L’Epicerie de La Mer, located in the growing zone of La Plaine-Sur-Mer, is just the place!
We’ll be delighted to welcome you from July to September. There, you’ll also find a huge range of shellfish and local produce, all sure to delight your tastebuds.
Between 12 and 18 months…
That's the time between
a mussel forming on the bouchot
and it being harvested.
Patience is the name of the game!
