’La Moufette’ lock

  • Historic site and monument
  • Engineering structure
Phare des Baleines, 17590 Saint-Clément-des-Baleines
Discover the Saint-Clément-des-Baleines fish lock!
A unique piece of historical heritage, this ancestral fishing technique involves trapping fish in a horseshoe-shaped drystone structure. These ‘meadows of the sea’, surrounded by a curvilinear drystone wall, are flooded at high tide and trap the fish at ebb tide. When the sea recedes, the fish are locked in and all the fishermen have to do is catch them.

Of the 140 locks on the shores of the Ile de Ré at the end of the 19th century, only 14 remain today. The first fish locks or pêcheries...

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’La Moufette’ lock
Phare des Baleines, 17590 Saint-Clément-des-Baleines

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Updated on 07 April 2025 at 12:14
by Destination Ile de Ré
(Offer identifier : 5870014)
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