Britain's
last eel catcher will bring a 3,000 year old tradition to an end as he says he
can’t find a successor or make the job pay
By Agency
1:50PM
GMT 19 Jan 2016
Britain’s
last eel catcher will bring a 3,000-year-old tradition
to an end as he says he can’t find a successor or “live on empty pockets”.
Peter
Carter, 50, has been trapping eels using the same methods that have been
employed on the Fens in eastern England for a staggering 3,000 years.
But
now devastated Mr Carter is hanging up his nets amid plunging eel stocks.
Peter's
own family has traced its eel fishing
connections back to
at least 1475. But archaeologists have found clear evidence of the same cottage
industry arcing back many more centuries than that to the Bronze Age.
Mr
Carter, of Outwell, west Norfolk wrote in an statement posted online: "It
breaks my heart but I can't live on empty pockets.
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