Development and perspectives for community-based management of the
goose barnacle (Pollicipes pollicipes) fisheries in Galicia (NW Spain).
For example, birds were predicted to reduce
goose barnacle populations by 46% over the course of the year.
In fact the "alien-looking" tentacled creatures were spectacularly large examples of
goose barnacles - known as Lepas anatifera to marine aficionados.
In both Portugal and Spain,
goose barnacles (Pollicipes pollicipes) are considered a delicacy.
She said: "
Goose barnacles are filter feeders that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone.
Percebes Probably the ugliest food you will ever try, percebes or
goose barnacles are tube-shaped crustaceans that cling to wave beaten rocks along the shorelines mainly in Galicia.
02 Tucked in an alleyway, the unassuming, low-key restaurant Au Passage serves a rotating menu of artistically presented, tapas-style dishes like burrata,
goose barnacles, and asparagus with fish roe, to name a few of its recent offerings.
He revealed they were a massive colony of thousands of small crustaceans known as
goose barnacles. Unlike other shellfish such as crabs and lobsters,
goose barnacles do not crawl along the seabed but instead attach themselves using tentacles to floating material in the sea and filter food from the water.
Lepas ydi'r enw gwyddonol arnyn nhw a "
goose barnacles" yn Saesneg.