Im a fisherman who hasnt caught a fish in two years because of ridiculous Welsh laws 
By Jonathon Hill UK Source: walesonline 12/31/2023
Jonathon Hill
Credit: Alun Lewis
This year Alun fished 13 tides and didn’t catch a single fish. It’s a far cry from his grandfather who earned a decent crust flogging seafood he'd caught in the boat he eventually died in.
 

It's a boggy December morning on the Cleddau river and Alun Lewis is tending to his four miniature horses and a few boats moored up on his four acres of land. We're in the quiet hamlet of Landshipping that looks out onto the large expanse of water which is otherwise only 50 or so feet wide at other times of the year. It is prime time for Alun – one of the world’s last six compass net fishers – to don his waders and float his little handmade 150-year-old wooden boat towards the estuary.

 
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