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Fishing has always been a mainstay of Fife. The fishing industry
began to develop in earnest in the latter half of the nineteenth
century, with many advances in boat design, technology of fishing
gear and expansion of markets through improved transport. Fishing
became more efficient and could employ more people in itself, and
in supporting trades. The annual pattern of fishing seasons emerged
with many boats catching white fish through the winter, followed by
the main herring fishery through the summer and autumn. There was
also a smaller winter herring fishery in the Forth itself. This
book charts the evolution of Fife's fishing industry through
photographs held at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther.
They cover the period from the 1880s to the present day and
inevitably concentrate on the East Neuk fishing villages that
dominated Fife's fishing industry. In these images we can see the
harbours teeming with boats, the piers busy with herring lasses
gutting and packing the fish, carters and coopers, and the shores
piled high with baskets and boxes, all revolving around the silver
harvest of the sea.
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