Castletownbere is the centre of the area, with large port, seafood processing plant, good variety of shops and eating places.
Strange enough the only shop missing is a fish shop, so we hang around at the pier to see if there are small fishing boats coming back to unload at around 5 pm.
As there is no local market, fishermen sell direct to the processing plant, to be processed into frozen seafood or sent to elsewhere, once saw a big Spanish lorry parked there.
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| female brown crab |
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| male brown crab |
Purchased live lobster (1kg euro 15), live brown crabs (1kg each euro 5 each), fresh scampi (4kg) and fresh turbots (800gm each) euro 20.
scampi and turbot
To save water in camping car, steam lobster (15 minutes), crab (20 minutes) and scampi (4 minutes).
Brown crab is in double shell season, both male and female have good crab fat, with the male one more creamy, but flesh of female is more tender.
As the area has many sheep and cow farm, also purchased a rib steak from the butcher, delicious, nice change from seafood.
rib steak
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