Catching the Tide

The deepening world environmental crisis is touching us all. From the developing world, to each corner of the affluent West, people will have to come to terms with the the results of climate change. It will inform the way we live over the next decades and bring profound change. Photographers are on the frontline and are witnessing how change is occurring. My contribution is to tell the story of Scotland's last salmon net fishermen and how environmental and social changes have affected their lives.









A salmon netter hauls salmon from a jumper net at low tide on the sands at Kinnaber, Angus during a May hailstorm.










Salmon netters Bob Ritchie and Jim Mitchell head home along the sands after fishing jumper nets at low tide at Kinnaber, Angus.










Salmon netter Bob Ritchie lifts a salmon through the pocket of a jumper net at low tide on the sands at Kinnaber, Angus.










Salmon netters Bob Ritchie gutting a wild Atlantic salmon at his ice house after fishing his jumper nets at low tide at Kinnaber, Angus.










A team of salmon netters battle against the incoming tide as they secure poles with ropes on the
foreshore during construction of the fly net on the rocks at Boddin, Angus.

















Salmon netter Ian Falconer carries netting across the foreshore at low tide during construction of the fly net on the rocks at Boddin, Angus.











Salmon netters pulling their nets ashore while fishing by sweep netting using a coble on the river
North Esk, Kinnaber, Angus at sunset.










A stake net being cleaned of weed at low tide at Annan on the Solway firth in south-west Scotland.










A fish caught in a poke net, staked out on the sands of the Solway, in the south-west of Scotland.
























Three young 'loons' with a salmon caught in a bag net by local salmon netters at Boddin, Angus.

A salmon netter holds up a fish caught in his bag net at Boddin, Angus

Salmon netters at dusk at Scotland's last fishing station on the River Tweed at Paxton in the Scottish Borders.

A salmon net fishermen is drenched by sea water in a coble as it sails across Lunan Bay in Angus on their way to fish bag nets for wild Atlantic salmon.