Looe is a picturesque harbour town in east Cornwall and is a popular tourist destination.
The River Looe divides the town into East Looe and West Looe and the entrance to the harbour is famous for its Banjo Pier. The design of the pier was devised to avoid the age old problem of "silting up" and the one at Looe was thought to be the prototype for many subsequently built all over the world.
The other thing for which Looe is famous is the failure of its fishermen to buy a drink in The Dolpin pub on Plymouth's Barbican when they were visiting the port in the 1970's, 80's and 90's but that's another story.
Fishing has always been extremely important to Looe and in the last 40 years, the port has had a successful, innovative and competitive inshore trawling fleet.
The ongoing contraction of the Fishing Industry, however, has led to a reduction in the size of the Looe fleet in recent years but not in the size of the stories told by Ivor Toms.
The port continues to hold a fish auction market.
Looe Fish Selling run the auction in Looe.
Looe harbour authority
Tel: 07918 728 955
VHF Channel 14
