“This is my favourite ever museum. I’ve always loved this museum since from when I was growing up,” Stephen Roberts-Pratt, manager and ship-keeper at Hasting Fishermen’s Museum, told Fishing News. “I’m always here on my days off doing bits. It…
“You lean on the rail drinking a cup of coffee, watching the dolphins playing, and you think: ‘This is the stuff of dreams – most of the world will never get to see this,’” Clyde fisherman Ian Wightman told Fishing…
“There were a couple of days in the summer when we were short-staffed and were going in at 1.30am,” Darren Jenkins, fourth-generation fishmonger and owner of Jenkins & Son, told Fishing News. “That’s insane – but it’s my business, I…
Share a day in the life of an artist who specialises in painting fish and shellfish The natural marine environment has become my specialism – that’s what people know me for,” Monmouthshire-based artist Giles Ward told Fishing News. “I think…
“I wasn’t the best at school,” early-career fisherman Mat Price told Fishing News. “Three days before I was due to start college, I called up John Trewin – a fisherman in Cadgwith –and asked if he was looking for a…
“My father was a fish merchant and haulier – that’s how I got involved in the industry,” Ronnie Scott, founder of Stornoway-based Islander Shellfish, told Fishing News. “I was 13 years of age when I bought my first box of…
“I love helping people,” Chris Williams, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) fisheries expert, told Fishing News. “I’ve never before been sent so many messages of best wishes from people. What we do really makes a difference.” After graduating from the…
“The last five years have given me a new lease of life,” Maryport-based fisherman and owner of quayside fish sales business Chelaris Fresh Fish, Shaun Humphreys (pictured above in the centre), told Fishing News. “I’ve been fishing all my life.…
“I grew up on the Beara peninsula in West Cork, Ireland, with the ocean around me,” Dr Susan Steele, executive director at the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA), told Fishing News. “I decided at the very early age of three…
“It’s been a personal ambition to try and convince people of the UK that they can source good-quality seafood, and they should source good-quality seafood,” Jimmy Buchan, managing director of multi-award-wining Amity Fish Company, told Fishing News. “And we can…
