| Description | Charles Parker and Ewan MacColl interview Mr Draper about fishing for herring
Tracks 1-2: Mr Draper describes catching a 'shimmer of herring', boxing and icing them or landing them fresh, hauling fish, working very long hours, 1.54 mins
Track 3: talks about how hauling is tiring, 1.04 mins
Track 4: talks about prices of herring in 1938, 0.21 mins
Track 5: Charles Parker asks when Mr Draper first went to sea, 0.51 mins
Track 6: talks about throwing away the catch because there was no market when they got back to the harbour, better teamwork in the past, 1.25 mins
Track 7: talks about wages in the 1930s and wages today, 1.45 mins
Track 8: talks about men getting no wages when they're in harbour, how to find shoals of herring, describes what a shoal looks like, damage done to shoals by trawlers, 2.53 mins
Track 9: they talk about drifting being more laborious than trawling, 1.21 mins
Track 10: they talk about overfishing, 1.05 mins
Tracks 11-12: they talk about trawling and different ways of fishing for herring, midwater trawling and about how to find herring by looking at the water, whales, and birds, and by smelling the water and using echometers
Track 13: describes fishing in different types of weather, how herring behave in different types of weather, 1.17 mins
Total: 18.4 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA YL458D0961774 |