Balmerino 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was a fishing station on the shore, where today you see down the lane a group of three houses. There was a boiler house, salmon being preserved for the London market. Salted fish from the Tay was exported to the continent, shipments going from Newburgh to Genoa. In the l950s a local  Balmerino business went into partnership with Young’s Seafood. The catch was salmon and sea trout in season, whitebait and sparling.  Local sparling featured on menus of the famous old liners, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth.