Lobster a l’Américaine

They are fishing the Mediterranean dry. Voracious hordes of tourists are taking their toll on the sea itself, as well as despoiling the coastline of Southern France. This year, even in the fishing ports, local fish cost more than those brought overland a thousand miles from the Atlantic.

At the end of the war the rocky coves of the Riviera were filled with lobsters. But year by year the French have had to go farther afield to catch them, until now they have virtually deserted the shores of Metropolitan France and are to be found in great numbers only off the coasts of Corsica.