{{Short description|Fishing village in Scotland}} {{More citations needed|date=October 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} thumb|Portessie {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} thumb|500px|Panoramic view '''Portessie''' ({{langx|sco|Peterhythe or The Sloch}})<ref>[https://scots-online.org/dictionary/english_scots.php The Online Scots Dictionary]</ref> is a small fishing village east of Buckie, on the north-east coast of Scotland between Buckie and Findochty.
==Fishing==
The Annual Report of the Fishery Board for 1906<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!-- not stated --> |date= 1906 |title=25th Report:Appendices |journal=Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland |location=Edinburgh |page=44-45 |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office}}</ref> explains the mode of operation in Portessie: "No fish landed at this creek. Fishermen prosecute the fishing all the year round at other stations, and they had a prosperous season". In the report for 1907 we learn that "the fish caught by the fishermen of this creek are all landed at Buckie harbour. There were eight steam drifters built for this creek during the year, the fleet now comprising 23 vessels"<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!-- not stated --> |date= 1907 |title=26th Report:Appendices |journal=Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland |location=Edinburgh |page=38-39 |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office}}</ref>. In 1912, in a statement which covers all of the ports in the Buckie district, it is reported that "The majority of the fishermen are employed exclusively at herring fishing for the greater part of the year at the various centres in Scotland, England and Ireland. Line fishing is carried on by the older fishermen, who are employed more or less all the year round"<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!-- not stated --> |date= 1912 |title=31st Report:Appendices |journal=Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland |location=Edinburgh |page=32-33 |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office}}</ref>.
{{multiple image | align = centre | perrow=2 | header=Fishery Statistics | total_width=400 |background_color=#C5CBE1 | image1 = Portessie tonnage.png | caption1=Tonnage of vessels | image2 =Portessie Cwt landed.png | caption2= Cwt of fish landed (excluding shellfish) | image3 = Portessie vessels.png | caption3=Vessels by class | image4 =Portessie value.png | caption4=Value (£) of fish landed | image5 = Portessie fishermen.png | caption5= Fishermen | image6=Portessie curing stations.png | caption6=Placeholder - no curing stations }}
==See also== *Portessie railway station
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