Welsh Cockles

Cocos

Specialised

The BURRY INLET and Loughor estuary cockle beds at PENCLAWDD, gathered by hand with a scrape and a riddle — historically by women who rode donkeys onto the sands and sold in Swansea market — under a licensing system that is centuries old in practice. Boiled and sold by the pint, eaten with vinegar and pepper, with laverbread and bacon, or in a pie. ⚠ THE FISHERY IS REGULATED AND HAS SUFFERED REPEATED MASS MORTALITY EVENTS since the 2000s whose cause is still debated.