Author: Mike Smylie

Wherever you fit into the debate about food - vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, flexitarian, or carnivore - you cannot argue against the fact that fi...

When Alexander Noble established his boatyard in 1898, he probably didnt realise he was also establishing a new Noble tradition. Alexanders yard wo...

After the end of hostilities in 1945, the fishing industry was quick to establish some semblance of recovery and a surge of new builds and restorat...

For hundreds of years the design of fishing boats has followed traditional methods. Mike Smylie, author of Traditional Fishing Boats of Britain &am...

Britain has a history of producing and using a wonderful array of fishing boats, some of which still sail under private ownership. These older vess...

For generations, coastal fishermen, working at the very fringe between land and sea, have fished salmon and herring using methods passed down from ...

The fishing industry has always been important to Britain. From the deepsea trawlers to the traditional craft that sailed around the coast, the har...

The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring have been commercially caught and its import...

Fishing the Severn Sea From Hartland Point to St Anns Head. The Bristol Channel, once one of the busiest fishing lanes in Great Britain, is a comp...

Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid-1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishi...

Maritime historian Mike Smylie takes the reader on a wonderfully comprehensive journey through the history of fishing in and around Morecambe Bay i...

For centuries Britains commercial fishermen have ventured out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring fish back both to supply a home mar...