Polperro
Polperro
- Administrative Port: Plymouth
- County: Cornwall
- Population: 1206
Polperro is a village and fishing harbour on the south-east Cornwall coast, England, and is situated on the River Pol, 25 miles (40 km) west of the major city and naval port of Plymouth. Fishing was traditionally the principal occupation of Polperro families. For centuries the village has been a pilchard fishing and processing port, with Polperro’s pilchards exported to many parts of Europe. Shoals of these fish diminished in the 20th century and pilchard fishing from Polperro died out as its mainstay in the 1960s, but nonetheless a small fleet of commercial fishing vessels still operate from the harbour. As with many Cornish coastal towns, Polperro’s main revenue-generator these days is tourism.
- Picture: Fishing boats of Polperro (Author: GIFS Researcher Photography)
- Video: Polperro harbor (1937)
| Background information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 1 | 81 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 2 | 1 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 3 | ||
| Fishing Fleet | Vessels total | 91 | |
| Landings | Total Landings (tonnes) | Demersal (tonnes) | |
| Landings | Total Landings (tonnes) | Pelagic (tonnes) | |
| Landings | Total Landings (tonnes) | Shellfish (tonnes) | |
| Landings | Total Landings (tonnes) | Main species (tonnes) | |
| Landings | Total Landings (tonnes) | All species (tonnes) | |
| Landings | Values | Demersal | |
| Landings | Values | Pelagic | |
| Landings | Values | Shellfish | |
| Landings | Values | All species | |
| Landings | Number of fishermen | Number of fishermen (Regular) | |
| Landings | Number of fishermen | Number of fishermen (Part-time) | |
| Landings | Number of fishermen | Number of fishermen Total | |
| Landings | Major fish species | ||
| Landings | Landing points | ||
| Landings | Location of auctions | ||
| Governance and organisation | Governance | Polperro FLAG | |
| Governance and organisation | FLAG | Cornwall | |
| Governance and organisation | Location of fishermen's organisations | ||
| Branding | Brand labels | ||
| Fish as food | Fish selling | ||
| Fish as food | Fish processing | ||
| Fish as food | Restaurants/hotels | Nevilles, Little Green Looe, Cornwall PL13 2RF | |
| Tourism & Education | Tourism & Fishing | Fishing trip: Independent Fisher Trips | |
| Tourism & Education | Festivals | ||
| Tourism & Education | Fishing museums | The Polperro Heritage Museum of Smuggling and Fishing, Harbour studio, The Warren, Polperro PL13 2RB | |
| Tourism & Education | Aquariums | ||
| Tourism & Education | Monuments | ||
| Tourism&Education | Fishing training School | ||
- Vessel type 1: <10 m vessels
- Vessel type 2: >10 m vessels
References
1. http://www.marinemanagement.org.uk/fisheries/statistics/vessel.htm Feb 2014
