The Spanish Mediterranean coast is not a good place for buying wood. Though a thick pelt of forestry covers many areas of Catalunya there is...

Back in September, finding myself out of work, I seriously thought about trying to get a job aboard a fishing boat. I signed up for a course...

Last September I did a day’s work aboard a Mediterranean trawler. Evidently there was no comparison to be made with the experience described...

I recently re-read Redmond O’Hanlon’s excellent book Trawler. Redmond—writer, naturalist and academic—embarks on an Orkney Islands trawler s...

The trawler fleet return to Vilanova harbour in the watery afternoon light. The more elderly wooden boats have a distinctive sheer and pleas...

Looking over the water in the dawn light, breathing the sea’s salt breath.