The market held on the quay of the Old Port of Marseille only offers the catch of the day... and that, every day of the year!
An authentic market
Around ten large sky blue bins, the colors of Old Port before the major works of 1012, make up this small market. The stalls are placed on simple trestles sometimes decorated with an umbrella. It is women, wives of fishermen, who carry out the sales. They give voice, all smiles outside. The prices of their merchandise defy all competition...and the reason.
Every day has its own basket
It’s nature that chooses, says Hélène Brun, a member of a family of fishermen for five generations. But every day nature is generous and the contents of the basket varied. Thus, we find there, in addition to shellfish, octopuses, wrasses, flying foxes, turbots, soles, monkfish… and sardines. It is Hélène's husband who, daily, alone or accompanied by a sailor, pushes his "Shark" up to 25 miles from the port.
Sunday to Monday
Days off are exceptional in our profession says a member of the Brun clan, and it's not a little swell that stops us from going to sea, he adds. I have to say that the sharp supports three families. While cleaning her bins, Hélène says: when she was still a medical secretary, she assured her father that she would never marry a fisherman...
