Common catch

Goose Barnacle

Fun fish fact + real football fact

Deportivo de La Coruña (Spain)

Fun fish fact: goose barnacles cling in clumps to rocks on the north-east Atlantic coast, and in Galicia, Spain, they are a prized catch. Football: Deportivo de La Coruña, from Galicia, won La Liga in 1999-2000.

Source: Wikipedia

Fish tale

A goose barnacle holds on to the rocks with a bendy stalk and never lets go. In Galicia, home of Deportivo de La Coruña, people pick them off the rocks by hand. This one is holding on like a team defending a one-goal lead.

Island story

On Futbol Island the goose barnacle can be caught at:

Boulder Cove: A rocky cove on Summit Isle’s far shore, piled with boulders, right round the coast from the sandbar. Shy animals shelter in the cracks between the rocks.

Size on the island: 3–8 cm.

Go fishing on the island