Community Quote by Carol Drinkwater

What makes Biarritz special, as far as I'm concerned, are the fantastic coastline, the beaches - such as the Cotes des Basques - and…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

Communities such as Auchmithie, Sandend, and even Wick once thrived on herring fishing. But it led me to ruminate on the likely fate for…

— Rick Stein

“When they weren’t running meat—or rum—they worked as salt miners or piloted small boats along the coast. These highland Saint-Dominguans, along with more recent…

— Tom Reiss

“It was said that in the markets to the south of Taghaza salt was exchanged for its weight in gold, which was an exaggeration.…

— Mark Kurlansky

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large…

— Herman Melville

“Whale oil beef hooked,”

— Louise Penny

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

— Bill Condon

There is something basic about fishing that goes back to man's very beginnings.

— Robert Fuller

“An eccentric Connecticut whaling captain named Preserved Fish and his cousin-partner Joseph Grinnell shifted from hawking New Bedford whale oil to running the Swallowtail…

— Mike Wallace

I grew up in a little village in England that had a river running through it so I've been fishing from a very early…

— Jeremy Wade

To meet the huge consumer demand for fish, the industry can no longer rely on hunting wild fish. Now we are doing to fish…

— Sharon Gannon

“evolution of the lactase persistence allele, and it locates it in an area engulfing Slovakia, with Poland to the north and Hungary to the…

— Adam Rutherford