Southport, Merseyside, UK 27th April, 2015. UK Weather. John Rimmer a Lorry-boat Shrimper boiling shrimps from his earlier catch, which are then peeled before being sent off to the wholesaler & market. Southport has always had a history of fishing, including the catching of shrimps, which has been carried out in Southport and nearby districts for centuries. References for it can be found as far back as 1113 to fishing in the Parish of North Meols. Horse-drawn carts or mechanical vehicles trawl nets behind boats, known as ‘shanking’. Credit: Mar Photographics/Alamy Live News
Beach shrimping is all that remains of a once-vibrant fishing industry in Southport, and John remembers a time when over 80 shrimpers followed the ebb tide along the vast expanse of sandy beach, trawling for the brown shrimp which Southport became famous for. There are no more than five remaining shrimpers, all of John’s generation. The decline in catches, may be been caused by the pollution of the Irish Sea by the dumping of raw sewage, industrial chemicals, agricultural pesticides, and effluent from the now recovering River Mersey.
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