it’s funny f u n n y the way
it works
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the pots are on a long line pot
pot
p p p
pot
o o o
t t t
six per line s p a c e d
out
they’ve got a loop l
o o
p p
o o
l l
o o
p p
tied on tight that’s how you set them
o o
l l
o o
p p
o o
l
It’s fantastic really fantastic little ones in June
they d i
s
s
a
p
p
dissapear e a r
then they come back out out of their hiding places we eed prawn we eed emerge in september and
they’re
huge it’s a seasonal cycle.
They’ve dredged portsmouth harbour out
out out out d d d it out r e d g e d r edged redged redged r e d ge d out out out they’ve dumped the mud here here mud mud mud mud mud mud near the harbour. it’s
gradually
w
a
washing
s
h
with the easterly wind onto Bembridge
over
i
ledge
n
g over
edge.
If they can’t spawn on the ledge I
don’t
what
know
w i t h i n the weed they’re going to do.
It’s killing They wont be here anymore. d i s a p
p
All for the sake of a i
a
r
c
r
them. e f
a t
r
carriers.
They’ve been doing it for years. Do you think it’s right? It used to be
so
clean
Come speak to the fisherman of Bembridge.
here.
One day I and
p
u
l in
l
e
d
there
up
the
a
not
pots was
prawn.
it was like a lobster it was pink in colour a lobster has a crushing claw and a cutting claw two This
sizes
different one
cutting
had
cutting
two
claw
it had two
cutting
I put it in a bucket
claw
kept it alive
I put in the newspaper nobody
claws
knew
what
to know who it was it was.
Someone said it was I’ve
never
a mudshrimp caught one ever
like
it
again.
They said they’d found fossils of it from the prehistoric times See where it’s stood up? It went into an aquarium they took it away to London I don’t know where it went from there. You can see it’s not a lobster look? See the claws?
Well there’s not many
people now left
to do prawning in bembridge which is a shame really it’s
really
heartbreaking
Bembridge prawns are really unique they’re not caught anywhere else like that I what there is
I
don’t down
know
there
just
now
don’t
know
When I go onto the boat out m
there y
s
by e
l
f
it’s in a different world
there’s
nobody
about
and
it’s
quiet.