This was washed up on the beach today. Marian wanted to take it home and cook it, but we decided it was fairly clearly the property of the Moroccan fishermen spread along the beach. They were fishing as follows: a long length of line with hooks at two-metre intervals. on each hook a piece of squid. One end of the line tied to a metal post hammered into the sand below the tideline. The tide, when it came in, would cover the post and the line (and the hooks and the squid), and then when it went out again would leave the fish caught and stranded and ready to be picked up. At least this was the theory - we didn't see any of this actually happening. It was a lovely day, beautifully overcast and threatening.
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