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I did a mussel shoot recently for Bantry Bay Premium Seafoods here in Co. Cork. Great fun, especially as I’m a big seafood fan.

Two of the firm’s product development managers attended the shoot to do the cooking and styling, along with the designer who was going to take the resulting shots and use them on new packaging designs. Naturally, we got talking about mussels. Bantry Bay sources its mussels locally (west cork has some of the best seawater in the world) and Chile. In fact, the mussels we were shooting had been shipped from Chile because their shells are richer in colour – there’s Latin flamboyance for you.

As we were chatting, an incredible statistic emerged. Bantry Bay sources close to three-quarters of a billion mussels each year. You’d hate to think what would happen if they ever got unionized.

Anyway, here is one of the shots from the shoot, cropped pretty much as it will appear on the new packaging that will be launched into the US market soon.

Mussels in Tomato Sauce – Bantry Bay Premium Seafoods
(c) Roger Overall 2008