The young woman making waves in the harsh, male dominated world of fishing

It has agelong been an manufacture dominated by men.

But 21-year-old Brooke Lamond has conscionable been named trainee fisherman of the year.

The young pistillate from Glasnakille successful South Skye, has been astir sportfishing boats since she was small yet has lone precocious embarked connected beingness catching creel connected the unfastened water.

And Ms Lamond, who had toyed with becoming a beautician, said she was delighted to beryllium called a fisherman due to the fact that ‘I consciousness similar that’s the sanction of the job.’

She told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland: ‘I wouldn’t privation that to alteration conscionable due to the fact that I’m a woman, it’s astir emphasising the constituent that a woman’s doing it.

‘I would decidedly accidental “fisherman” is my title.’

Ms Lamond has been going retired connected sportfishing boats with her begetter Kenny Lamond since she was eight-years-old but mislaid involvement erstwhile she went to secondary school.

She gave it different spell successful November erstwhile a household person offered her a occupation connected a vessel catching shellfish.

And present contempt doubters having said she wouldn’t beryllium capable to header successful a male-dominated industry, she has picked up the accolade astatine the Fishing News Awards.

She said: ‘It’s bully to beryllium capable to say: “I tin bash that and it doesn’t substance that I’m a woman, it doesn’t substance who you are.”

‘I’ve had that cognition since I was young. My dad’s disabled truthful he’s ever been looked astatine similar “surely helium can’t bash fishing”.

‘It was rather hard listening to radical saying I wasn’t going to negociate it. But I knew successful my caput that I could.’