Kirkcudbright Harbour

Some 14 trawlers ranging from 40 ft to 86 ft in length are based at the port. All but two are of steel construction, some being beam trawlers and the rest being mainly shelter decked and automatic scallop dredgers. The grounds they work extend from the Shetland Islands to the Bay of Biscay with the crews travelling home every two weeks, but in the winter months, they generally work from Kirkcudbright. Three smaller boats are engaged in full-time lobster fishing. Wherever they work, the normal practice of most skippers is to sell their catches to local processors.