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The Island of Soay Shark Fisheries Ltd The basking shark fishing station was established here in Soay Harbour by Gavin Maxwell, on a small island off Skye. It operated between 1945 and 1948, when it collapsed financially, having caught around 1,000 sharks. The huge carcasses were pulled out of the water here, the livers rendered for oil, the rest sold for fertilizer, aphrodisiacs or food. A glorious failure of an enterprise. Not to be confused with Soay in St Kilda, or Soay in the Outer Hebrides. |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by John Allan and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Attribution: John Allan
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