Moonlighting

Tales and misadventures of a working life with eels

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Michael Brown ISBN: 9781906122775
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books Limited Publication: March 15, 2014
Imprint: Merlin Unwin Books Language: English
Author: Michael Brown
ISBN: 9781906122775
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books Limited
Publication: March 15, 2014
Imprint: Merlin Unwin Books
Language: English

In spring 1973, Michael Brown, a young freelance travel writer, took a phone call from a friend: 'Why don't you come down to Somerset and see these things called elvers - they migrate up river at night on the high tides and the local's fish for them. It's called elvering.' And so began a lifetime's career, full of ups and downs, as a self- employed eel fisherman: from the enchantment of catching them by moonlight, to driving them in battered vans across Europe, to smoking mature eels, to selling them - Michael and his long-suffering wife Utta have never looked back. A heart-warming tale of running a small business on a shoe-string; and a passion for eels which never faded.

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In spring 1973, Michael Brown, a young freelance travel writer, took a phone call from a friend: 'Why don't you come down to Somerset and see these things called elvers - they migrate up river at night on the high tides and the local's fish for them. It's called elvering.' And so began a lifetime's career, full of ups and downs, as a self- employed eel fisherman: from the enchantment of catching them by moonlight, to driving them in battered vans across Europe, to smoking mature eels, to selling them - Michael and his long-suffering wife Utta have never looked back. A heart-warming tale of running a small business on a shoe-string; and a passion for eels which never faded.

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