For the past five centuries, the residents of this little fishing port were cod fishermen from the discovery of Canada by Jacques Cartier until recently, since at the beginning of the 20th century, three quarters of the ships bound for Newfoundland could be found in the ports of Saint Malo, Saint Servan and Cancale. The building sites of La Houle resonated with the hammers of craftsmen who built wooden ships. In the 1950s modern ships replaced these, and the people of Cancale turned their attention landwards. My friends continue to depend on the sea, practicing their crafts with always a respect for tradition, nature and man: Jean-Luc Tachet fishes red mullet, squid, soles and sea bass; Philippe Couapel goes after prawns, lobster and velvet swimming crabs; father Quéma brings back mackerels and line-caught sea bass; Michel Daniel cultivates is famous oysters; Meury picks up cockles and shrimp…