Something Fishy | Port’s seafood quality is unbeatable

By John 'Stinker' Clarke
August 10 2017 - 2:30am
TRADITION: Commercial fishermen have worked in local waters since the 1800s.
TRADITION: Commercial fishermen have worked in local waters since the 1800s.

August is ‘Love Seafood’ month in Port Stephens and history shows that we have plenty to be thankful for. Commercial fishing has been carried out throughout the Port and along its beaches since the mid to late 1800s originally supplying a very small local market, including a few Chinese who had settled here after giving up in the gold fields.

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