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Gallery: Aberdeen Fish Festival through the years

By David Bradley
1986 - Aberdeen City Centre Association Rose Queen Kate Fraser is caught in the net at the fish breakfast at the Caledonian Thistle Hotel to launch the third Aberdeen Fish Festival
1986 - Aberdeen City Centre Association Rose Queen Kate Fraser is caught in the net at the fish breakfast at the Caledonian Thistle Hotel to launch the third Aberdeen Fish Festival

This week in the Aberdonian we look back at the Aberdeen Fish Festival through the years.

Can you spot an old friend or a member of your family in the pictures?

1986 - Aberdeen City Centre Association Rose Queen Kate Fraser is caught in the net at the fish breakfast at the Caledonian Thistle Hotel to launch the third Aberdeen Fish Festival
1986 - Aberdeen youngsters Joanna and Stephen Ratcliffe explored the fisheries protection vessel Westra in anticipation of the Fish Festival
1986 - Mermaid Donna with Coronation Street star Bill Roache, who plays Ken Barlow, and wife Sara, who officially opened the festival
1988 - Chefs at the Stakis Tree Tops Hotel, Sandy Flett, left, and Steve Pledger get their knives ready for the 7½ stone halibut to be on the menu at the Fish Festival dinner. Holding the fish are Helge Korsager, left, of United Fish Products, and Sandy Law, of Aberdeen Fish Curers’ and Merchants’ Association
1990 - Listening for the sound of the sea in a big shell is 10-year-old festival princess Danielle Maloney, with mermaid Yvonne Collins
1988 Chef Andrew Whelan of the Stakis Tree Tops Hotel restaurant, Rocco’s, has everyone’s 1988 mouth watering with his mussels marinara
1989 - Aberdeen Fish Festival mermaid Donna Maclean surfaced at the Neptune Quayside grading plant
1990 - Jan the horse gets a noseful as ten-year-old Festival Princess Danielle Maloney opens the 7th Aberdeen Fish Festival with a fish breakfast at the Caledonian Hotel
1985 - Lynne Taylor, 10, accepts the Press and Journal Shield for the best fish display, on behalf of NorSea Foods, from Elizabeth Kennedy, while William Merson of Merson and Gerry accepts the Shell UK Shield for the best overall display from Jennifer Walker
1989 - ‘Deep sea diver’ Geo Mitchell hands over the fish for the breakfast to launch the Aberdeen Fish Festival Week at the Caledonian Hotel, Aberdeen, to head chef Brian Mutch
1987 - Fishing boats through the ages – the display of model boats attracted considerable attention from visitors
1985 - Some of the children at the festival are intrigued by ‘Jaws’ as they sample shark and swordfish dishes at fishmonger Ken Watmough’s stand
1993 - ‘Neptune’s wife’ – better known as Marion McCloy – plays her part at the fish festival
1990 - Harry Haddock and Charlie Chip say hello to Kirriemuir siblings Fiona, 11, and David Glen, 8, who were visiting the fish festival

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