Throughout most of early Irish food history, fishing was simply a matter of survival, simply a way to get additional foodstuff into our diet. For thousands of years, settlers fished in estuaries, the mouth of the river where the fresh water met the sea. At the mouth of the Liffey, for example, they built wattled weirs to force fish into collection points where they could be netted or speared. Then they toasted them over open fires or simply ate them raw…
Irish Times, 02/06/17. Read the full article ‘How to make the most of trout season‘.
