Baie des Anges

This guide to the Baie des Anges in Nice traces the bay's name back to the angel sharks fishermen once hauled ashore here in special nets, prized for their meat, skin and liver. You'll hear how the Provencal fishing trade treated the animal as an ordinary catch, not a myth, and how a century of heavy fishing changed its fortunes across the Mediterranean. The guide also weighs the softer legends people invented for the bay once the real angels stopped coming home in the nets.