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wisteria leaving the maidens
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plenty o bodys aboard in them days
And this is where the Scottish govenment/Marine Scotland has an opportunity ... to recover small-scale (by today's standards) coastal fisheries by nurturing the likes of a strictly managed ring-net, etc fishery, assuming what Nicky says is correct. That could be a canny move
Ireland has been a lot smarter in that it has ensured herring quoata for sma' boats
Recovering the technique would take rather less time that some might think. And don't forget, there's a modern fishery for pilchard developing in the West Country where small boats are still encouraged
Ireland has been a lot smarter in that it has ensured herring quoata for sma' boats
Recovering the technique would take rather less time that some might think. And don't forget, there's a modern fishery for pilchard developing in the West Country where small boats are still encouraged
we already have a sentenel fishery for boats under 15 meters in the dunmore box for herring its been very sucessful keeping the larger vessels outside the 12 mile closed area and gives coastal communities a great boost during the winter months other areas are looking at similar practice
The last time I was at the herring fishing on the west side, we were pair trawling and went into nearly all the lochs where we used to et fish, both at drift net,and latterly pair trawl, but we noticed that where ever there were fish farm cages, there was absolutley nothing. The bottom of the loch was completly poluted because of them. I dont think herrin will ever return to those lochs...but I hope i,m wrong..
I guess that anyone could go at that job now wi gps plotters acurate to the nearest foot, colour sounders and such, if they had to charge about like the old lads did with only their wits and local knowledge, a bit o wire over her arse, pure seamanship to rely on not many would go !!
It would not matter if you filled the wheellhouse with the best plotters sonars etc if you did not have the experiance of the bights these men worked that was passed down through generations and knowing how the tide ran, when to turn in or off the shore, know where you were in the bight relevent to your net length and doing this in a darkened wheehouse yards from the shore,plotters too bright at night to work on the shorehead, with only the skyline of the clifftops to guide you, yes anyone could do it. Not.
As a kid in Whitby during the 50's and a young fisherman from the end of 59 onwards, the names I always used to hear regarding the ring net was the Sloanes and the MaCrindles
Baggywrinkle you are completely wrong. The herring etc are hiding around and in the cages from the pair trawlers!
That's my dad "Bill Andrew" (peewee) forward on the port shoulder.
My dad had her.
I was the 'Bri' and my brother was the 'Zander' of the name.
my dad was Arthur Strachan, my mother was Jane Strachan (MacPherson) Fishing News correspondent.