All the pupils of Portpatrick Primary school were invited down to the village harbour to meet the father and son team of Rory and Robert Campbell, owner of the local “Campbells” restaurant.
Rory Campbell has recently taken on a new role in representing Scottish food and drink as an ambassador for 2018. Rory approached the school and offered a session, down at the harbour in Portpatrick ,in order to provide the pupils with an insight as to the harvest available from the local waters.
Robert and Rory showed the children a variety of different local catches – including lobster, crab, dogfish and octopus. The children were able to see a pregnant lobster as well as a dogfish about to lay it’s young. The children even got to see the teeth of the lobster up close! Robert Campbell demonstrated to the school, with the help of a real life lobster, how his creels work.
As part of the discussion , Robert was able to highlight all the plastic which he had harvested along with the seafood. Children were shocked to see crisp packets, yogurt pots , coke cans and sweetie wrappers all were caught in the sea this morning too. The dangers of plastic in our waters was clear for the boys and girls of Portpatrick to see.
The session ended with everyone heading round to the slipway to watch Rory and Robert Campbell release the animals back into the sea. All the adults and pupils agreed it was a very interesting an informative visit in their local community.
