Fishing - Gallery

Scarborough's fishing industry goes back hundreds of years to a time when fishermen paid tythes to the local friarage.  The famous song 'Scarborough Fair' is all about the herring catch that took place in August every year as huge shoals of herring swam along this coast.  In the 1930s-1950s blu fin tuna or tunny fish also swam here eating the herring.

See pictures here:

Purse seine net

Otter trawl

Fish being laid out

All hands on deck

Albert Sutton and other fish merchants 1950's

Mending a lobster trap

Illustration of fishermen mending traps

Baiting the lines

Net mending

Scarborough harbour, unloading a catch

Tom Watkinson

The haul

Trawling