Old Photograph Fishermen On Fishing Boat In Banff Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen on a fishing boat in the harbour in Banff, Scotland. During the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District, comprising the ports from Crovie to Sandend, was important to the herring trade, with production peaking in 1853 at more than sixty thousand barrels, of which nearly thirty four thousand were exported, however by 1912 production had declined to just over eight thousand barrels. Currently, the languages spoken in the town and in its vicinity tend to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and English.



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