Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
1024px-Mussels_at_Trouville_fish_market
Mussels (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/Claude Covo-Farchi) - Credit: Mussels (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/Claude Covo-Farchi)
Dutch Mussel Auction
Dutch Mussel Bureau
mussel farmers
mussel season
Oosterschelde
Wadden Sea
Zeeland mussels
Thursday, 9 July 2015 - 13:25
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Zeeland mussel season underway; new batch hits stores this week

The Dutch Mussel Bureau officially opened the new mussel season on Wednesday. Symbolically the first basket of mussels was fished out in the Oosterschelde with a mussel trawler. The new crop will be available in supermarkets and restaurants starting this week. Last week samples from plots in the Oosterschelde and Wadden Sea proved that this year's mussels are once again of good quality. According to Nederlandse Dagblad, the mussels are slightly larger this year than the previous season. The fish weight is good and will only increase in the coming weeks. "The growth of the mussels is dependent on natural conditions", according to the Mussel Bureau. "They need about two years to ripen. From Wednesday the Zeeland mussel farmers started sailing to their plots in the Oosterschelde and Wadden Sea to bring their mussels to the Dutch Mussel Auction, NU reports. Every year the some 70 Dutch mussel farmers produce a total of about 50 million kilograms of mussels.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Schiphol passengers could pay €3 suitcase fee to help attract staff, baggage companies say
  • Aruba prosecutor: New evidence in Natalee Holloway case is fake; American T.V. host was tricked
  • Cancer fatality rate is higher in the Netherlands than the EU average
  • Netherlands residents still managing to save a lot of cash even after Covid
  • Social benefits will cost considerably more due to minimum wage increase
  • Life sentenced prisoners will get additional year for reintegration

Top stories

  • Aruba prosecutor: New evidence in Natalee Holloway case is fake; American T.V. host was tricked
  • Possible passenger ceiling at Schiphol again due to staff shortage, travel agency angry
  • Hoekstra wants to reintroduce conscription
  • EU countries agree on new price cap for Russian oil
  • Hermitage shows Rembrandt and contemporaries from The Leiden Collection
  • Dutch police take down Exclu encrypted chat service with 42 arrests, €4 million seized

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content