One of the remaining features of the areas thriving fishing past is still in use today. The Net repair green, at Cowie Harbour, is still regularly used by the locals.
The men and women that these communities bred were courageous, tough, resilient. The fishermen's houses were crowded together near the shore and often so close to the sea that they were just above the high water. However they were occasionally sited close to the edge of hazardous cliffs as at Catterline, a few miles south of Stonehaven.
