'Silver Coquet' fishing coble, Cullercoats
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'Silver Coquet' fishing coble, Cullercoats
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 26 Dec 2009
Originally registered at Blyth as BH63 it now has the external mark LH576, a Leith registration. It is a wooden coble made in Amble in 1960 sadly laid up in the top yard at Cullercoats http://www.trawlerpictures.net/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=10290 In 2002, this was the last salmon coble operating out of Cullercoats where there had been a 100, a century earlier. Offshore drift-net fishing for salmon and sea trout in the North East came to an end in concern for fish stocks http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6783/is_2007_Sept_10/ai_n28453051/
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Image Location
Latitude
55.037054
Longitude
-1.432619