Toome Eel Fishery

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Toome Eel Fishery

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Location

Toome

Year

1960

Date

Production 01/01/1960

Length

02min 50sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Footage of work being carried out at the Toome Eel Fisheries operation in the village of Toome (aka Toomebridge) on the shores of Lough Neagh in Co Antrim. Fishermen pull the nets of eels in and are seen depositing them in wooden boxes which are sealed for transport as live eels. Eel fishing was a major industry at the time and Lough Neagh eels considered a delicacy across the United Kingdom leading to the rights to fish Lough Neagh becoming one of the biggest and most expensive legal cases in Northern Ireland courts during the early 1960s.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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