Summary
AT THE age of 52, Chris Mennie was renowned as one of the most experienced fishermen on Scotland's east coast - a skipper who knew every nook and cranny in every bay from Aberdeen to Stonehaven.
The sea, as they say, was in his blood. Fishing had been his life since the day he left school - first as a young deckhand on an Aberdeen trawler and then as the skipper of two moderately sized trawlers with his own crew.See the full content of this document
Extract
The Skipper Lured Back to the Sea - and His Death
Like many of his fellow skippers, he had sold the last trawler during the turbulent years the fishing industry endured during the 1990s.
Back on land for the first time in his life, he set up his own taxi firm. But the lure of the sea was too strong and within months he was back fishing - th...See the full content of this document
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