Adresse physique
66 Rue du Sahara El Kala w. El Tarf
Algérie
Adresse physique
66 Rue du Sahara El Kala w. El Tarf
Algérie

During her field tour of the wilaya of El Tarf, the Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts visited the Corail Chaib workshop in El Kala, which specializes in turning red coral into handcrafted jewelry.

How can you be sure the red coral you buy is genuine? We compare coral with gold in terms of official guarantees, and share practical tips for buying authentic coral jewelry.

E-commerce is growing fast in Algeria. Discover how Corail Chaib built an online shop that brings authentic Algerian red coral jewelry to customers at home and abroad.

Halted since 2001, red coral fishing in Algeria was announced to restart in early 2024 in El Tarf, Skikda and Jijel. Here are the key facts about the plan: licences, quotas and rotating zones.

Algeria holds the largest red coral deposit in the Mediterranean, but decades of poaching have damaged its reefs. Seizures, smuggling routes, the 2015 legal framework and why regulated fishing keeps being postponed.