What is the scallop festival?

Festival of Hřebenatka's fine is a celebration of fishing and cutting seasons and includes different activities depending on where it takes place. Participants of the scallop festival can participate in the collection of seashells and the teaching of local techniques and recipes for cooking with mussels. They could participate in various cultural performances, exhibitions or competitions, as well as listen to live music, display displays of local arts and crafts and enjoy other meals and drinks. The festival will usually include the preparation and consumption of mussels.

, which usually takes place once a year, the festival scallops can be large or small. The first festivals were smaller and local than many of today's big events. These smaller local festivals were often celebrated exclusively among the fishing communities that depended on the shells for their living. Celebrations could evoke the gratitude of the community for the abundance of mussels in the sea when expressing the next year of successful fishing. Although they still occur to these small festivals in some partsThe world, many scallop festivals have increased, with such a range of activities that seashells no longer have to be a real focus. Festivals usually last for more than one day and may take weeks. In almost any case, the abundance of food and local celebrations creates interest in festivals and increases local shop and tourism.

Some festivals attract people from all over the world. For example, the Bourne Scallop at Cape Cod in the US attracted more than 55,000 people to a three -day event, required by large organization, financial planning and sponsors of companies. The festival of this size of the scalloping could hold hundreds of sellers, food courts and even small amusement parks, while some participants plan the whole holiday around the event.

6 The most popular varieties include sea shells, bay shells and Calico shells. The world's scallop populations have passed over the years as a result of excessive fishing and other factorsEnvironment and sometimes commercial fishing or seams can occasionally retain. The collection of seashells originally was a larger part of the many festivals Hlennatka, but coastal development and fluctuations in the world's populations have made this activity less common. In some cases, local shells no longer have to be part of certain festivals and the shells are brought from anywhere.