the silver herring...

The fisherman of Ullapool can’t catch any fish, while over the sea on the Isle of Lewis, the fishermen are pulling in net after net full of herring. In desperation, the women of Ullapool melt down their jewelry to make a beautiful silver herring and give it to their fisher husbands to use as bait. Once the Ullapool men have worked out a way to outwit the sea-witch who patrols the Lewis coast, the sheer beauty of the silver herring brings the shoals of herring back to Ullapool.

This film was made in 1996 by children from the Ullapool Primary Gaelic Medium Unit for the Gaelic Galore series.

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