A fishwife, fish-fag or fishlass is a woman who sells fish. She is typically the wife of a fisherman, selling her husband's catch, but other sources of fish have been used.
Detail of a Cullercoats fishlass, from Inside the Bar, by Winslow Homer 1883
Fishwives in St Andrews, Scotland bait their lines
Fishwife (1940), Gammel Strand, Copenhagen
Statue of the Nairn Fishwife
Cullercoats is a coastal settlement in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in Northumberland, it has now been absorbed into the wider Tyneside conurbation, sitting between Tynemouth to the south and Whitley Bay to the north. The population of this North Tyneside ward at the 2011 census was 9,202.
View of Cullercoats Bay from the north. The spire of St George's, Cullercoats is visible top right. Bottom right is the lifeboat station.
Cullercoats from the South by John Wilson Carmichael, 1845
Simpson Street, June 2001
Detail of a Cullercoats Fishlass, from Inside the Bar, by Winslow Homer 1883.