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Herring Moon Warms Yarmouth

1948 , Great Yarmouth (Norfolk)

Cat no. 980

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Newsreel of a bumper catch of herring landed at Great Yarmouth, featuring the dockside workers and the women who gut and prepare the fish.

Celebrating a record catch for the herring fisheries, the newsreel opens with shots of drifers arriving in Yarmouth harbour and the fish being landed. Fish are gutted and prepared for kippering by the expert Scottish women workers and by local labour. In the smoke house, the fish are split and hung on racks. The finished kippers are wrapped in cellophane ready for marketing. Boxes of fish are transported away by train and by lorry.

Keywords

Drifters; Fisher girls; Herring fishing; Smokehouses

Background Information

Despite the upbeat tone of the newsreeel, the herring industry had already started to decline during World War II, and continued to suffer in the following years owing to diminishing fish stocks.

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Herring Moon Warms Yarmouth

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