Colin McPherson online exhibition

Salmon Netting

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A salmon netter carries salmon from a 'jumper' net through a hailstorm at low tide on the sands at Kinnaber, Angus, 2000

A salmon netter carries salmon from a 'jumper' net through a hailstorm at low tide on the sands at Kinnaber, Angus, 2000

A salmon netter carries salmon from a 'jumper' net through a hailstorm at low tide on the sands at Kinnaber, Angus, 2000

Fishermen constructing a stake net, St. Cyrus, Aberdeenshire, 1997

Salmon netter Ian Faconer steers a coble on the way to emptying bag nets in the waters off Boddin, Angus, 2000

Salmon netters emptying jumper nets from a coble (boat) off the shore at Kinnaber, Angus, 2000

A stake net being cleaned of weed at low tide at Annan on the Solway firth, 2000

A fisherman operating the sweep net at Paxton on the river Tweed, 2002

David Pullar adjusting ropes on a 'jumper' net, Lunan Bay, 2001

Fishermen landing salmon at a netting station on the River Tweed near Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1996

Salmon netters from Joseph Johnston & Co. of Montrose, constructing a stake net on the sands at St. Cyrus, Aberdeenshire, 1997

Walter Davidson cleaning seaweed from his stake net at Creetown, on the Solway firth, 2003

A fish trapped in a poke net staked out on the sands of the Solway firth, 2002

James Mackay setting off in his coble from the salmon netting station at Armadale, Sutherland, to fish his bag nets, 2003

Bob Ritchie fishing one of his 'jumper' nets, Kinnaber, Angus, 2005

Salmon netters guide stakes into holes on the foreshore at low tide during construction of the fly net on the rocks at Boddin, Angus, 1998

A team of salmon netters constructing the fly net on the rocks at Boddin, Angus, 2000

A salmon netter completing his work constructing the fly net at Boddin, Angus, 1998

Salmon netter Dave Pullar pictured standing at one of his bag nets drying at his netting station of Fishtown of Usan, 2001

A salmon net fisherman at his ice house at Armadale, Sutherland, with a fish caught in a bag net, 2007

Salmon bag nets drying at Fishtown of Usan, Angus, 2001

Fishermen pulling the sweep net at Paxton on the river Tweed, 2002

George Pullar working to repair salmon nets drying at Fishtown of Usan, Angus, 2002

A team of fishermen working at night on the sweep net on the river North Esk, Angus, 2000

Simon Paterson and his son James setting out in their salmon coble, Strathy, Sutherland, 2007

Two salmon netters walking home along the sands after fishing 'jumper' nets at low tide at Kinnaber, Angus, 2000

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