Fishing for Eels in the Beck
Personal memory by Ashley K.
1975 CE • Belsey Bridge
As kids we would fish for eels in the Beck, a small river that ran into the River Waveney, which separates Norfolk from Suffolk in East Anglia, England. Years before eels were trapped in char, hundreds in the weirs. No more, few make it up the rivers to breed nearby.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022-2023
Image: Edward Hurme, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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