Silver Darlings Silver Darlings Silver Darlings is a 1947 British film about Scottish fishermen, based on a 1941 novel by Neil M. Gunn. The film is set in the early 19th century and after the highland clearances. Catrine and her family, like many other dispossessed Scots, turn their hands to Herring fishing (the so-called Silver Darlings of the title). Catrine's husband is press-ganged into the Royal Navy and dies at sea. Catrine is left widowed with a young son to raise. After some time, Roddy proposes to Catrine, but her son Finn, now older, is very upset about the engagement and everyone
Ministry of the Fishing Industry (Soviet Union) Ministry of the Fishing Industry (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Fish Industry (Minrybprom; ) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union responsible for prodiving the state policies on the fisheries industry. The People's Commissariat of Fish Industry USSR was established by the ukase of the Presidium Supreme Soviet USSR of 19 January 1939, which divided the People's Commissariat of Food Industry USSR into People's Commissariats of Fish Industry, Food Industry, and Meat and Dairy Industry. On 15 March 1946, the People's Commissariat of Fish Industry USSR became the Ministry of Fish industry USSR. On 8 May 1946, the Ministry