Clovelly

Fishing at Clovelly would seem to be a very profitable occupation at the present time. In addition to large numbers of other fish a tribunal applicant reported last week that since July he had caught 43,366 herrings and mackerel. Clovellys have been making 2½d and 3d apiece, but if these retailed at 2d each the catch of herrings alone would bring in during the past three of four months over £360. Then there were 1,047 whiting and 354lbs of conger and cod. North Devon Journal.

The Clovelly fisherman probably wishes the Barnstaple paper’s deductions were true.

Gazette article dated 12 November 1918