Port d'Armor, Saint-Quay-Portrieux
Scallop boats and yachts on a live webcam in the deep-water harbour of Saint-Quay-Portrieux, Brittany.
About this view
This webcam watches Port d'Armor, unusual on this coast because it floats: the first deep-water harbour in northern Brittany, opened in 1990, which boats can enter at any state of the tide where most local ports dry out twice a day. Beyond it lies the scallop bed of the bay of Saint-Brieuc, 150,000 hectares of it.
The fleet is the reason to watch. Scallop dredging is tightly rationed, a season from October to April, two sorties a week, under an hour of dredging each, so the harbour swings between crowded and empty. Around 5,300 tonnes came through the local market last season.
Boats move around the season's early openings; summer belongs to the thousand-odd berths of the marina (UTC+1, +2 in summer). At a tidal coefficient of 90 the sea here rises and falls more than nine metres, and the foreshore empties dramatically.
