Graham Hall on Fishing

Lisa: Did you have contact with fishermen as Harbour Master?

Yeah quite a lot. A great deal actually because to be fair, most of the fishermen were on Lifeboat crew as well so I knew them from the Lifeboat as well as that. Unfortunately, because of the demise to an extent of the fishing, the number of fishermen has declined.

There are still the old favourites that go out there, crab and lobster fishermen. Very, very successful crab and lobster fishermen but while there’s about four working regularly from the Harbour and there’s a netting boat that goes out there as well, fishing but that’s about it, but they’re consistent.

We built the pontoon, fishermen’s pontoon for them and since the new owner took over, he’s widened it and made it so they can store their gear on board. Yes, fishermen are an important part of the village life and we do what we can to support them in the Harbour, but the only problem is, if there’s no fish there’s no fishermen, or there might be fish, whether it lets you catch it is the problem.