Statue of Fisher Jessie was commissioned in 2001
This bronze statue of Fisher Jessie was commissioned in 2001 and pays homage to women in the local fishing industry.
Naturalistic bronze cast statue of a fish-wife and little girl, the woman carrying a creel and a basket.
Made by Scott Associates Sculpture and Design and named by Peter James Buchan after his great great grandmother Jessie Buchan known as ‘Fisher Jessie’.
Fisher wives like Jessie would travel into the rural areas around the town hawking fish from their creels on their backs or exchanging it for agricultural produce, which they would carry in the basket.
This trade continued up to the 1950s.
