The Sea Clearances - An account of the demise of the fishing fleet and the fishing communities of Scotland

Neil Gunn, that great Scottish novelist, once wrote of the Scottish land clearances that “The landlord had driven them from these valleys and pastures, and burned their houses, and set them here against the sea-shore to live if they could and, if not, to die, …Yet it was out of that very sea that hope was now coming to them… The people would yet live, the people themselves, for no landlord owns the sea, and what the people caught there would be their own …”

But this hope from the sea has suffered its own clearances in recent years, and often at the hands of the landlords of the sea: governments and international bodies that have contrived to destroy yet another way of life. This is the tale of the Sea Clearances.

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Posted from David Thomson on 27/07/2002