Product Description: This is the story of Britain’s commercial fishermen, who have sailed out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring back the fish to feed their country for centuries. Theirs is one of history’s most dangerous jobs, and whole communities have been affected by disasters from which a number of the town’s men may not have returned: in 1872 some 129 fishermen were lost in one night alone...read more

Product Description: Since Britain and Ireland joined the European Economic Community in the mid 1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishing. Mike Smylie takes us on a tour of England’s south coast, taking us to harbors that you could once walk over on the hundreds of fishing boats to coastal inlets where the herring once shoaled...read more

Product Description: The unusual history of the herring and those whose lives have revolved around getting it to the tables of the masses The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For more than two millennia, herring have been commercially caught and its importance to the coastal peoples of Britain cannot be measured...read more