Lybster Harbour.
Lybster has a large area of concrete hardstanding. By 1859 there were 357 boats fishing from Lybster, making it the third busiest fishing port in Scotland after Wick and Fraserburgh. Sadly times have changed, the herring boom was largely over by the time the Wick and Lybster Light Railway, built in an ill-timed attempt to profit from it, arrived in 1899. During a large part of the 1900s Lybster supported a successful white fish fleet, but this too has gone, leaving a much quieter place now home to a number of small fishing boats catching lobsters and crabs. As a result there is still a lot of evidence of fishing in terms of the boats moored in the harbour and the lobster pots and other fishing gear piled around it. Photograph by Pamela Vallance.
Lybster Harbour.
Lybster has a large area of concrete hardstanding. By 1859 there were 357 boats fishing from Lybster, making it the third busiest fishing port in Scotland after Wick and Fraserburgh. Sadly times have changed, the herring boom was largely over by the time the Wick and Lybster Light Railway, built in an ill-timed attempt to profit from it, arrived in 1899. During a large part of the 1900s Lybster supported a successful white fish fleet, but this too has gone, leaving a much quieter place now home to a number of small fishing boats catching lobsters and crabs. As a result there is still a lot of evidence of fishing in terms of the boats moored in the harbour and the lobster pots and other fishing gear piled around it. Photograph by Pamela Vallance.