Scottish Fisheries Museum - telling the history of fishing in Scotland through the years.
 

Fact Sheets

 

A Classification of Fish
B Methods of Fishing
  (i) Creel Fishing
  (ii) Sma' and Great Lines
  (iii) Fixed Nets
  (iv) Drift Nets
  (v) Trawling
  (vi Ring Netting
  (vii) Seine Netting
  (viii) Purse-Seine Netting - "Pursing"
C Fishing Vessel Types ( Sail, 18 - 19th Centuries)
D Herring Seasons
E Herring Lasses
F Lodgings of the Herring Lasses
G Steam Drifters between the Wars
H Superstitions among Fisherfolk
I East Neuk Weddings
J Fishermen's Ganseys
K The Reaper
L Bibliography

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