#QuoteOfTheDay: 'a surviving fragment of red sandstone quay near the current Frodsham Mill is likely to have been the cheese-loading quay'

That's right, dear reader. #Frodsham in #Cheshire had a specific #cheese loading quay.

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An example of a fishing technique from Sweden in the early 20th century. Fishermen deploying a handheld stake or drift net into a small river, effectively blocking all fish, is ecologically damaging. Described in secondary literature as an illegal fishing method. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

An example of one of the stone #fishweir known as “shi hu”(石滬) from #Penghu, #Taiwan. On of huge number of stone weirs found along the shores of the #Penghu Islands.
Picture by Prof. 李明儒/Ming-Ju Lee
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Slive gold of the Bristol Channel! Atlantic Herring landed at ports and sometimes on the share in traps and nets as the sholes passed by in the season
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Porlock Weir is one of three intertidal structures fish traps in Somerset, England. The #fishweirs were built in the medieval and/or post-medieval period. Used as oyster beds in the 19th Century. Mapped from aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1999. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

They also offer insights into the nature of the coastline and how an artist or mapmaker viewed it. Filled with unknown dangers and foreboding that populate old maps. While also being the world's largest daily economic catches, i.e., cod, tuna, as sorces of protein.
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Depictions of #fishweirs in art and maps across periods reflect their role in the physical and cultural landscape, as well as their economic value. They serve as both a tangible and abstract representation of human interaction with the ocean. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

#WhitefordBay #Llanmadoc #Gower #GowerPeninsula #SouthWales #WelshCoast #WhitefordPointLighthouse #WelshHistory #CoastalHistory #WildlifeWales #NatureWales #NationalTrustWales #BirdWatching #WelshBeaches #DiscoverWales #VisitWales

Ecological diversity and cultural fishing traditions of the stone fish weirs on the coast of Chipiona, a town and municipality on the Atlantic coast in the province of #Cádiz, #Spain. The corrales, aka traps, are built in the intertidal zone in front of the village.
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