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Fish basket with traces of red paint.

Nylon cord with 24 modern net corks.

Four modern net floats of 'PLAREX'; melon size and shape; ochre coloured.

One modern net float of red-orange colour; cheese shaped.

Iron beam for lifting baskets of fish from boat to pier; central ring; hooks at each end attached by rings.

Sillock poke-net made by Bill Laughton, Stromness fisherman; unused, complete with iron hoop.

Two iron creel rings.

Pitch pine V shaped instrument for holding a hand-line, copper rivets, stamped with name 'J. R. Baikie'.

'Tomboy' - wooden instrument used in hauling in a fishing line over the side of a yawl or a dinghy.

'Scratcher' - system of metal rods, line, hooks and sinker used in fishing herring between sunset and sunrise.