A 1932 advertising document:
"The coasts of Bessin produce fish highly sought after by amateurs and Port and Grandcamp are home to many boats and trawlers engaged in fishing, they are important centers that supply part of our markets in Normandy. Or can see from our beaches these boats crisscross the sea indulgining in fishing.
Nowadays the transport of fish is carried out by fast means thanks to cars, but about fifteen years ago this sale had a picturesque cachet, many dog tows traveled through the countryside and fishmongers offered the fresh tide at home. It was a very hard job, on the road by cold, rain or snow, spending part of their night to reach the port where they had to refuel; from the first boats arrived, it was the race for sale, the first passerby often taking the place, some did with their hitches up to 70 kilometers in the same day.
However none of these emulates of Mrs. Angot would die in wealth, very few were those who escaped the concern that the law carried to poor dogs, a bowl for food, absent, a poorly arranged collar, irregular authorization, and often when exhausted by a long race they recovered from their fatigue by being dragged in their truck, the marshal ambushed, as if by chance, in some corner often appeared and the money so expensively acquired went in the form of a ticket to fill the state coffers.
Other terrible enemies of these poor people were the heat, the cold, the fatigue, so - the opportunity makes the thief - many times by passing near the bistro, in exchange for the good fresh fish, they accepted a small glass of this tord-boyau which in fact of relief only relieved the wallet.
