/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12935076
Whatever, taffy.

>>12935041
Both. That whole coast up to Berwick is basically all our North Sea herring reserves. Fucked now by the EU. There are a couple of massive Dutch floating factories that come up and just hoover it out the sea. Local smokeries at mainly Seahouses and Craster, though, buy exclusively from the small fleet still operating. Last time I was in Craster though, the local smokery owner told me they were relying on Scottish boats fishing for it off Norway (so basically last summer’s haul) because the CFP quota was already bought up by EU vessels. Really fucking dire. This is the number one reasons these areas voted Leave - watching this shit go on for decades.

On coal, though, yeah - this area is riddled with it. In fact, there’s a small beach near the caravan park to the east of Amble where you can just pick it up off the ground in massive chunks. Same along that whole coast up to Berwick. Related is, iirc, just north of Alnmouth and I saw the same thing there. Coal heads and deposits all along the beach. Not viable to dig, though. As an interesting aside, Northumberland has an abundance of beautiful country parks because they’ve filled in all the old open face mines and made lakes of them now, with replanted forest and meadow around them. Spectacular one up at Druridge Bay my dogs go apeshit for. I don’t think coal will ever come back here, but fishing definitely. They REALLY want their fishing back big time.