Herring and the Shetland Receivers
Get the nets. The whole sea’s boiling.
Peter Grimes (Montagu Slater)
The herring will set you free. After a fashion.
North Atlantic fishermen had always hunted the herring, in amongst the cod
Gannet
The northernmost point of the British Isles is mostly gannets. Your last footstep, heading north, before you splash off the islands forever and into the grey sea, would be on a gannet, or
Whale processing
On a fjord in the far north west of Iceland, on the Hornstrandir peninsula, there is a long-disused Norwegian whale-processing factory.
To reach the Hornstrandir is not a simple matter. It is a