Fish boxes on the harbour at Eyemouth stamped with the names of ports from the various fishing nations of the North Sea. Some hours from now and they may well be teeming with the orange-pink shells of nephrops norvegicus. Predominantly male nephrops, venturing out from the silt to feed at dawn or dusk, are trapped […]
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As part of the Follow the Herring Project, the play “Get up and tie your fingers”by Ann Coburn is touring venues down the coast from Musselburgh to Hastings. Built around the Eyemouth fishing disaster of 14 October 1881 in which 189 men died, the story is one of grief and loss, but also of courage […]
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