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    ULLAPOOL’S FISHING HISTORY

    Oct 30, 2020 4 minutes

    Looking at Ullapool Harbour today, you’ll see many different boats coming in and out: traditional and modern day boats that fish for lobsters, langoustines and crabs; boats that go out and hand-dive for scallops; trawling boats that come with tonnes of fresh white fish and shellfish; creel boats that go out for months at a time and line-caught white fish boats from Spain. But it wasn’t always like this. Once, it was all about ‘silver darlings’ – herring.

    Ullapool was founded in 1788 by the British Fisheries Society as a new fishing port for herring. It bought Ullapool Farm on the banks of Loch Broom from a Lord Macleod and

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