A festival to celebrate the           Rye Bay Scallop

Market Fisheries (Rye)

One of Rye's Fishing Fleet

FACTS AND FIGURES AND INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT SCALLOPS AND RYE'S FISHING FLEET

"The cheapest sea-towne for provision of fish for our house."    King Charles 1, 1628 speaking about Rye.

Rye's fishing fleet moors almost two miles from the sea.

There are more than 300 species of scallop in the world.

You can tell the age of a scallop by its shell, one ring forms each year.

Scallops can be traced back 300 million years in fossil form.

The scallop is a mollusc and the only bivalve that can swim.

The scallop is an excellent source of protein, calcium, iron and vitamin B12.

The orange roe in a scallop is called coral.

THEY ARE ALSO DELICIOUS!!!