Tait Miller, London based chef, joined me for the day. taitmiller "I’ve been a chef for 13 years, I have opened hundreds of oysters in my career and grew up in one of the oyster capitals of the world, how…

.....My fishing trip with Oysterman Allan Bird was an experience I’ll never forget. Allan has been fishing the Mersea waters since the 1960s, and is a much respected member of the fishing community on Mersea. It was fascinating to find…

.....Except that for some owners, simple racing wasn’t enough and, back in the 1990s, they decided on an annual event to revive and preserve the old skill of fishing under sail. In its first year, it was a trawling competition…