Georgina Hunt

@georginahunt.bsky.social

Postdoc @UoABioSci and @BangorUni on the FisHistory project 🐟 | Marine Historical Ecology | Fisheries | Renewables

Back from a very successful trip to the IOM speaking with locals and visiting archives to piece together historical accounts of the herring fishery. We stumbled across these beautiful title page illustrations of marine biological station reports based on Puffin island in the late 1800s

BildBildBild

We’re visiting NW England next week (23–27 June) to talk to locals from historic herring ports 🐟 If you’re from the area and know anything about the Irish Sea herring fishery (past or present), or know someone who does, please get in touch here or at fishistory@bangor.ac.uk

BildBild

📢 Calling all members of the fishing and seafood industry, historians, government and local experts! 🐟 Know where herring were caught, when they arrived, where they spawned, or how they were used? 🗣️ We want to hear from you! 📩 Contact fishistory@bangor.ac.uk

HERRING KNOWLEDGE WANTED
Project aims
We aim to identify herring spawning grounds in the Irish Sea by incorporating historical sources (e.g., old newspapers and fisheries reports), local knowledge and modern data (e.g., seabed sediment maps). 
Information needed 
•	Where were herring caught locally?
•	When in the year did herring arrive?
•	Where did herring spawn?
•	How were herring used locally?
We need YOUR help!
We are seeking anyone with local knowledge on herring, past & present. 
•	Fishing industry- active & retired
•	Sea anglers
•	Fish trade/seafood industry 
•	Historians- local & maritime 
•	Government agencies & NGOs
Area of interest: Irish Sea 
Can you offer any information? 
Or know someone that might?
Contact 
email address: fishistory@bangor.ac.uk
bluesky: projectfishistoryCHWILIO AM WYBODAETH AM BENWAIG
Amcanion y project 
Ein nod yw nodi mannau silio penwaig ym Môr Iwerddon drwy ymgorffori ffynonellau hanesyddol (e.e. hen bapurau newydd ac adroddiadau pysgodfeydd), gwybodaeth leol a data modern (e.e. mapiau’n nodi gwaddod gwely'r môr). 
Y wybodaeth sydd ei hangen 
•	Ble yn lleol y daliwyd y penwaig?
•	Pryd yn ystod y flwyddyn y cyrhaeddodd y penwaig?
•	Ble wnaeth y penwaig silio?
•	Sut oedd y penwaig yn cael eu defnyddio'n lleol?
Mae arnom angen eich help CHI!
Rydym yn chwilio am unrhyw un sydd â gwybodaeth leol am benwaig, yn y gorffennol a’r presennol. 
•	Y diwydiant pysgota - p’un a ydych yn rhan ohono ar hyn o bryd neu wedi ymddeol
•	Pysgotwyr môr
•	Y fasnach bysgod/diwydiant bwyd môr 
•	Haneswyr - lleol a morwrol 
•	Asiantaethau’r llywodraeth a chyrff anllywodraethol
Maes diddordeb: Môr Iwerddon 
Allwch chi gynnig unrhyw wybodaeth? 
Neu'n adnabod rhywun a allai?
Cyswllt 
fishistory@bangor.ac.uk
projectfishistory