Silver Shoals: The Five Fish That Made Britain

Silver Shoals: The Five Fish That Made Britain by Charles Rangeley-Wilson


ISBN
9781784740863
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
368
Dimensions
162 x 222 x 34mm

On these rain-swept islands in the North Atlantic man and fish go back a long way. Fish are woven through the fabric of the country's history- we depend on them - for food, for livelihood and for fun - and now their fate depends on us in a relationship which has become more complex, passionate and precarious in the sophisticated 21st Century.

In Silver Shoals Charles Rangeley-Wilson travels north, south, east and west through the British Isles tracing the histories, living and past, of our most iconic fish - cod, carp, eels, salmon and herring - and of the fishermen who catch them and care for them.

In the company of trawlermen, longshoremen, conservationists and anglers Charles goes to sea in a trawler, whiles away hot afternoons setting eel nets, tries to bag his first elusive carp and drifts for herring on Guy Fawkes night as fireworks starburst the sky.

Underscoring this journey is a fascinating historical exploration of these creatures that have shaped our island story. We learn how abundant and valued these fish were centuries before our current crisis of over-fishing- we learn how eels built our monasteries, how cod sank the Spanish Armada, how fish and chips helped us through two World Wars.

Of course there is a deeper environmental dimension to the story, but Charles' optimistic perspective is this- no one is more invested in fish than the fishermen whose lives depend on them. If we can find a way to harness that passion then the future of fish and fishermen in Britain could be as extraordinary as its past.
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