November 9, 2019
International sculptor Chris woods has been comissioned to make a larger than life sculpture of a lave net fisherman which will be positioned close to our net hose a, adjacent to the wales coastal path and overlooking our lave net fishing grounds . Fantastic news !
a bo...
November 7, 2019
With the amount of plastic out on the estuary hardly surprising
when you gut fish and they have it inside them.............A 21st century severn estuary Cod......
November 7, 2019
From net to rod our year on the estuary continues. Paul & martin were out on the last set of tides after a few cod but ended up catching this cracking Bass .
October 26, 2019
From lave net to rod ,a season for everything.
When tide and weather combine to allow us to fish this way we venture out on to the Severn estuary after the cod.
This year a great start to the season despite the flood water......
October 18, 2019
Derek Brockway is filming for his new BBC Wales TV series ,travelling the wales coastal path .
He stopped by yesterday to film our fishermen and learn about our ancient fishery .
Derek was great to work with and showed genuine interest in our fishery and the proble...
October 16, 2019
Whilst cutting net rimes down on the levels we were appalled by the state of the lane and reen around the willow trees .
A clean up was undertaken by our fishermen
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What's the matter with people...........
October 16, 2019
It was fantastic to have a group of primary school children visit our fishery last week . They were all engaging ,interested and asked endless questions .
We set out various displays for them and asked them to partisipate in some.
A good time was had by all .
Then to rec...
October 13, 2019
Out of season some of our fishermen spend lots of time out on the estuary ,keeping an eye on things.......collecting bait ,line fishing and "mudlarking "
You just never know what you might find !
September 30, 2019
It was a joy to see our youngest member Matthew representing our fishery at Tredegar house on the weekend . Part of the "our living levels " history day the day was a success despite the weather !
Exhibing is something we do built around the lave net fishing and we see...
September 23, 2019
Great to team up with Gavin part of the living levels team at Black rock . Martin gave a talk to the Chepstow archaeological group as part of Gavin's tour of the levels