From Sicily to Beachport, David Dunsford continues a family tradition as he sets sail for his 50th fishing season.
abc.net.au/news/david-dunsford-marks-fifty-years-cray-fishing-at-beachport/102804144On a cloudy, calm morning, waves lap the hulls of the gently rocking fleet of fishing boats.It's the first day of spring, and the first day of the southern rock lobster fishing season.Seafaring from Sicily to South Australia"Our story is a pretty special story really; my mother's family came out from Sicily by ship, landed in Albany and made their way to south-eastern South Australia," he says.
"My grandfather, who was born in 1901, started out in very simple little kuta boats, about 25-foot long and eventually onto 'larger' timber 55ft boats in the 1950s," he explains."My grandfather told stories about selling cray tails for threepence a pound – which, in today's money, is about 3 cents.
"We would all gather at one of the family houses, everyone was happy and always laughing and always telling stories about life at sea," he says. "I remember being at school one day, about 15, and my father said to me, 'David, it might be best if you come home'.David joined his father, Ron, and his crew, on a 40ft timber boat."When I started it was like a mentorship – I was told what to do and how to be so very careful, because the truth of the ocean is: one mistake can be your last," he says.
"All the young men that are here today will become the same – when you leave the shore, you are truly with nature."
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