Croft and Creel, an exhibition at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, highlights the fishing traditions of the Highlands, particularly of the West coast and Hebrides.

With stories, objects and photographs from the Scottish Fisheries Museum's own collections and items on loan from other institutions and individuals, the displays will illustrate the types of fishing carried out by the crofter-fishermen of days gone by and the use of Highland ports today in the modern, globalised, fishing industry.

The Scottish Fisheries Museum tells the story of the Scottish fishing industry from the earliest times to the present. Displays cover the lives of the communities involved, on shore as well as at sea, boat design, fishing methods (creeling, long lining, drift netting, trawling etc.), the rise and fall of the herring industry, the controversies of the modern age.

On show are boats, gear, many fine models, personal possessions and domestic items from fisherfolk and their homes, and a collection of paintings. The photographic archive and collections contain many items relating to Highland fishing ports, boats, crews and families.

Croft and Creel runs until February 2008 - see www.scotfishmuseum.org for more details.