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The cod and ling were dried on the cliffs, then salted and carried by the women the twelve miles to Aberdeen on a Friday to be sold at the Green. In the days of the Skaterow fishing fleet the women would carry heavy creels of fish on their backs up a steep and muddy cliff path from the beach, with the men following behind, carrying their oars and, hanging over them, their long lines with eight or nine hundred hooks. The women would collect mussels and bait each hook every time the men went out fishing.
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