EDITOR’S BLOG: Money for old rope?

There’s no doubt that we should have a fervent pride in our fishing heritage, and museums around the coast play an important part in documenting its colour and history. But news of a grant (£90,000 to research seamen’s jumpers) that will fund the study of our fishermen’s clothing will probably bring a tear to the eye of many sea dogs who have watched their industry crumble to a mere shadow of itself, leaving them high and dry.

A pot of £90,000 has been made available to study the patterns of seamen’s jumpers which, it is said could identify the port from where they fished from. Details lost are details never likely to return, and we wholeheartedly support the recording of such interesting data, but at what price?

We’re not talking about the whole of Scotland here either. This is just the Moray Firth. Will fishermen who have struggled so hard to make a living from the sea take kindly to this seemingly generous spending to study knitting patterns?

What do you think? Is this wise spending or do you think the money could be put to better use? Leave your thoughts below.

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