"Shooting the nets - showing the series (of) corks before they sink and the floats supporting them."

Maker
John Peat Munn
Production date
Aug 1937
 Description
Text on negative envelope reads 'Eyemouth. in North Sea. Drifter with net astern'. View over the stern of a drifter showing the ship's boat on the left and a line of floats astern.
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Object detail

Department
Photo
Collection
Munn Photographic Collection/Family & Personal Papers Group
Maker
Production date
Aug 1937
Subject place
Eyemouth/Scottish Borders
Subject notes
Drifters laid their nets so that they hung like a curtain in the water, trapping shoals of fish which swam into them. There were weights at the bottom of the net and floats at the top so that it hung vertically. By the 1850s Eyemouth was one of the leading white fish ports in Scotland. Despite a massive loss of fishermen's lives in 1881, it continued to be a major port on the inhospitable Berwickshire coast.
Accession number
P38484

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