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vieille

Ballan wrasse

This is a photography of a Special Area of Conservation in Spain with the ID:

Labrus bergylta. The Ballan wrasse’s name, vieille means ‘old woman’ in French, and it has a lot of bones and is hard to de-scale, which makes it more of a fish for a soup like cotriade. Big ones (they grow to abut 60cm) are often made into a terrine.

Fish and seafood

Text © Dana Facaros

Image by Diego Delso