How to Catch a Prawn - Kathryn Attrill & Bernie Attrill

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.