I first heard this wonderful song sung by the Gaugers, who hailed from roadabout Aberdeen. I thought the folk of aberdeen and stonehaven were annoyed by the fact that they had no chance to SELL tatties and herring to the convicts......

On a side note, my grandfather was from Catterline (just south of Stonehaven) and apparently when he first emmigrated to Auistralia at the age of 16 with the Dreadnought Scheme my grandmother used to say he sung songs from the local area and played the fiddle really well. But people in country NSW weren't interested so he stopped.... I never heard him play the fiddle, never heard him sing a fisher song...

He emigrated from Catterline to Nowra NSW, to become....a fisherman!.