| Description | Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker interview Mr and Mrs Robert Burnett of Fraserborough, Scotland and George Noble
Track 1: they talk about fishing being like mining, sons follow their fathers into the fishing trade, Mrs Burnett talks about liking the fishing, talks about the girls singing while gutting fish, 3.16 mins
Track 2: Mrs Burnett sings 'Moonlight Bay', 0.41 mins
Track 3: Mrs Burnett describes how she met her husband, they talk about clothes worn by fishermen and herring gutters, 2.50 mins
Track 4: George Noble explains how the earnings from a voyage are divided between the partners and the crew, 2.06 mins
Track 5: George Noble describes what happens when a fishing crew is paid, 1.56 mins
Track 6: George Noble explains about the system of owning shares in a fishing boat and about how someone would put together a crew, how the best crews are built up from people who know each other, 2.40 mins
Track 7: George Noble talks about the deckhands banding together to ask for more money, the herring board intervening; he explains how subsidies are added to the crew's pay and divided up, 2.29 mins
Total: 16.01 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C033380 |