BRITAIN is fishy. The UK is about 94,000 square miles in area but has a coastline of around 10,000 miles (depending how you measure it). Nowhere is more than 70 miles from the sea, and even those bits that are that far inland are connected by a wide network of freshwater and tidal rivers. One of our very first industries was fishing; indeed, the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers reached its 750th anniversary last year. To celebrate that landmark (or should it be watermark) the Company turned to sculptor David Williams-Ellis, is now in place at Fish-mongers’ Hall in London.
