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The Shoals of Herring" (Roud 13642) is a ballad, written by Ewan MacColl for the third of the original eight BBC Radio ballads [1] Singing the Fishing, which was first broadcast on August 16, 1960. [2] Ewan MacColl writes that the song was based on the life of Sam Larner, a fisherman and traditional singer from Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, England.
The shoals – most likely made up of Atlantic herring, scup, hake, and black sea bass – were said to contain "tens of millions" of fish and stretched for "many kilometers". [ 60 ] Density – The density of a fish shoal is the number of fish divided by the volume occupied by the shoal.
Died. 11 September 1965 (aged 86) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Occupation (s) Fisherman, folk singer. Samuel James Larner (18 October 1878 [ 1] – 11 September 1965) [ 2] was an English fisherman and traditional singer from Winterton-on-Sea, a fishing village in Norfolk, England. His life was the basis for Ewan MacColl 's song The Shoals of ...
Pete Seeger (brother-in-law) James Henry Miller (25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989), [1] better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was an English folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor. Born in England to Scottish parents, he is known as one of the instigators of the 1960s folk revival as well as for writing ...
Shoals of herring during the reproductive season lay clusters of eggs on kelp and other seaweed, [e] [f] and the seasonal collection has been a time-honored traditional practice among the natives of Pacific Coast of Alaska and Canada, [41] [42] witnessed and recorded in the 18th and 19th centuries, [46] and has been traded [41] and a trade item ...
Bait ball. A school of bluefin trevally working a school of anchovies which may compact into a spherical bait ball if they are sufficiently threatened. A bait ball, or baitball, occurs when small fish swarm in a tightly packed spherical formation about a common centre. [ 1 ] It is a last-ditch defensive measure adopted by small schooling fish ...
Philip Donnellan. Philip Donnellan (9 February 1924 – 15 February 1999) was an English documentary film-maker. Described in his Guardian obituary as "one of the greatest of all documentarists", Donnellan worked with the BBC for over four decades, producing around 80 documentary films and programmes, most reflecting working-class lives.
The buis was first adapted for use as a fishing vessel in the Netherlands after the invention of gibbing made it possible to preserve herring at sea. [1] This made longer voyages feasible and hence enabled Dutch fishermen to follow the herring shoals far from the coasts. The first herring buss was probably built in Hoorn around 1415.