We've been making headlines!

Women in Fisheries has been hitting the headlines throughout 2021, as the fishing industry and the people who support it take centre stage.

Early in January, Sarah Marsh at The Guardian highlighted the formation of our new Women in Fisheries network, following a BBC Radio 4 package that used the term ‘fisherpeople’. Some suggested the use of a gender netural term was unwarranted, following the widespread perception that women only play a very minor role in the sector. Laney Black (one star of our award-winning film) was on hand to comment on the issue, which you can read in full here.

A few weeks later, BBC Morning Live featured a five-minute package on the role of women in fisheries, speaking to female fisherman Ashley Mullenger and researcher Dr Madeleine Gustavsson, who discussed the vital roles women play in the sector, the impacts of the Women in Fisheries research project, and how the new network was established. You can watch in full below.

And as summer got going in June, Kerensa Dagnall, shellfish business owner and also a star in our film, featured in the new BBC Radio 5 Stacey Dooley podcast. Kerensa talked about the highs and lows of working in the industry, and how she swapped beauty therapy for fishing. You can listen in full here bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09m2dgb.