Date – 2030

Place – Aberdeen

Widespread public antipathy towards industrial fishing methods and rapidly warming oceans combined to see the collapse of the East Coast fisheries by the end of the 2030’s. Following the decline in oil production, the impact of the unemployment in the fishing industry led to a long period of reflection and angst in the region.

Ironically it was the warming ocean and the changing path of the Gulf Stream that led the communities of the region to a long lasting and effective remedy for the local economy.

An imaginative and sophisticated re-branding exercise led this formerly bleak and chilly part of Scotland to become the ‘Cote d’Azur’ of the North. By 2070 the entire regional economy was tourism based and flourishing with people arriving in their thousands by the popular method of transport at the time, the sail boat.

Tourists often took home fragments of abandoned fishing gear such as this washed up on the sunny beaches as souvenirs of their visit.

Back to the Treasures from Dunbar collection