The website is currently under re-development and is due to become active during September 2010.
Any queries should meantime be sent to info@fishingheritage.net
The FISHERNET website is being created to help foster and service a Europe-wide network of people and organisations with an interest in fishing cultural heritage.
Fishing Cultural Heritage is the various fishing and fishing-related skills and traditions which are an integral part of fishing communities, contributing to their character and diversity. This constitutes objects, values and knowledge including, for example, jobs, buildings, boats, arts, literature, culinary traditions and fundamental seafaring and natural knowledge, within and about these communities.
Due to the changes and challenges facing European fishing communities, cultural heritage linked to fishing and fishing-related activities, past and present, is falling into disuse and at serious risk of being forgotten. Such knowledge and assets need to be maintained and nurtured to avoid losing a vital heritage and way of life that has been developed over centuries for numerous peoples. Future opportunities to utilise and develop fishing cultural heritage can thus be kept alive.
The Fishernet Network, which has emerged out of the EU Fishing Cultural Heritage Network Project, aims to enhance understanding, collection, valorisation, dissemination and use of European cultural fishing heritage.
The Fishernet project is co-funded by the European Commission through the Culture Programme.