‘It’s such a cultural thing,’ said Tara de Jersey, who was down just off Lihou Causeway with her son Humphrey Brimson, 12, and sister Chantelle Le Tissier.
‘It’s a big thing in our family. I always remember our pop, my mum’s dad going out, and I had always done it until I went to university, where I studied marine biology, and I started thinking about the reducing numbers. But I started again because Humphrey has shown such an interest in it.’
She said that she would like to see more women going out ormering.
‘I think it is different if you’re female, you know, having to keep up with the men,’ she said.
‘There is that pressure of trying to find them, you don’t want to be going back and hearing “the women haven’t found any ormers”.’
Watch: Vraic chef Nathan Davies was also among the first-time ormerers
It was Ms Le Tissier’s first time out ormering.
‘I have had plenty of opportunity to go, but just never have. But I’m loving it, I think I am going to become a regular,’ she said.
‘It’s nice because Humphrey is very outdoorsy, so this is something I can do with him, and my sister.’
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