View from NW showing fishing boats in harbour

Description View from NW showing fishing boats in harbour

Date 7/8/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 739621

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Girvan Harbour, Girvan, South Ayrshire This shows the main fish quays, on the south side of the harbour, from the west. The wooden fishing boats are typical of the local fleet at the time. Many of them were built in a yard on the north side of the harbour. Girvan was one of the centres of ring-net fishing for herring, which was practised using two boats, with a net drawn round a shoal in a circle. This method of fishing was developed in Kintyre. By 1970 it had almost disappeared as a technique, but former ring-net boats were being used for seine netting. This is an old rivermouth harbour, rebuilt in 1869-70 and again in 1881-3, and since modified on several occasions. It was used for coal exporting in the years before World War I. By the 1970s it was the premier fishing port on the River Clyde. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/41/32

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