Silver Darlings is trying to avoid conscription into the Royal Navy. 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
Fishing industry in Scotland the Scottish fishing industry, but is a direct consequence of the adoption of the CFP into British law. The outcome of the negotiations was considered by fishermen's representative bodies at the time to be a success. The extension of the limit to the whole coastline (including St Kilda and North Rona and enclosing the Minch, although excluding Rockall) gave Scotland one of the largest areas of inshore fishing in Europe, and the same limits as before entry to the EEC. Updated statistics from the UK's Marine Management Organisation on the UK fishing sector show that UK vessels landed 724 thousand