The South West

FISH AND FISHING ARE A BIG PART OF West Country life. All along the beautiful coastline, and in the many fishing ports, you will still see a way of life that has been handed down for generations. Although these days fish is in short supply and, sadly, with depleting stocks and restricted fishing, local fishermen struggle to survive, that relationship with the sea still continues in some form or another. There are even divers now scouring the seabeds to hand-pick scallops, primarily to keep chefs happy with their enormous saucer-sized specimens, but secondly - and perhaps unintentionally — to save the sea bed from being devastated by trawlers.