OBAN SEAFOOD CAPITAL OF SCOTLAND
In between crossings, the crew of Caledonian Mac-Brayne’s MV Clansman ferry swabbed the decks. On land, a few yards away, in the fresh and bitingly raw wind, the Chinese flag flapped above The Original Green Seafood Shack.
On the quayside of the ‘Seafood Capital of Scotland’, Iona Robertson, ‘Skipper’ Fiona Dow, Shauna Mackenzie, Maya Al-Hosani, Corrina Macneil, Marion Ritchie, Jacob Barnsley and Andrew Brown get on with their jobs: tubbing up hand-raked cockles from Benderloch; weighing lobsters from the Firth of Lorn; cracking and dressing crab; shucking Creran oysters; boiling up mussels; and de-tailing creel-caught langoustines landed that morning by Gordon the Prawn from the Ocean Star.
Next door, in The Fish Shop at D Watt and Son – at 100 years old, Oban’s oldest family business – Carol Watt is artfully
