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It’s no fish ye’re buying—it’s men’s lives

It’s no fish ye’re buying—it’s men’s lives

Welcome to this new archive dedicated to the memory of lives lost in subsistance and commercial fishing. Here I collect photos and information about existing memorials and publicise campaigns to create memorials to lost fishers, anywhere in the world.  "Mr Oldbuck led the way to the sands. Upon the links or downs close to them were seen four or five huts inhabited by fishers; whose boats, drawn high upon the beach, lent the odoriferous vapors of pitch melting under a burning sun, to contend with those of the offals of fish and other nuisances usually collected round Scottish cottages. Undisturbed by these complicated steams of abomination, a middle-aged woman, with a face which had defied a thousand storms, sat mending a net at the door of one of the cottages. A handkerchief close bound about her head, and a coat which had formerly been that of a man, gave her a masculine air, which was increased by her strength, uncommon stature, and harsh voice. “What are ye for the day, your Ho

Pittenweem fishing memorial

Fisher statues of the South West Baltic

El Cenachero - Fisherman of Malaga

Newhaven Fishermen’s Memorial

Lost at sea memorials

Purbeck Isle, Weymouth

Katy from Conwy, North Wales

Monument to the fishermen of Anzio

Quay wall, Alderney