Spring-Summer Pure Jersey Part 1 with adverts:jersey Cover AW
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Living the<br />
Life<br />
What’s it like to live in <strong>Jersey</strong>? We talk<br />
to people who tell us their stories<br />
and what the island means to them.<br />
Interviews by Andy Stansfield<br />
and Roger Thomas.<br />
50 pure<strong>Jersey</strong><br />
Sean Faulkner<br />
Faulkner Fisheries<br />
At some point in your<br />
visit you will want to<br />
try one of <strong>Jersey</strong>’s splendid restaurants.<br />
There’s a fair chance that the seafood on the<br />
menu will be supplied by Faulkner Fisheries,<br />
based at L’Étacq at the northern end of St<br />
Ouen’s Bay. Proprietor Sean Faulkner has seawater<br />
running through his veins. The ocean<br />
and its bounty have played a major role in his<br />
life for as long as he can remember,<br />
Sean was brought up on this five-mile sandy<br />
bay on the west coast and recalls how his<br />
mother insisted that he went for a dip in the<br />
sea every day between May and September.<br />
Like many local people, he grew up gathering<br />
shellfish from the beach – it was not unusual<br />
for children to be told to go down to the<br />
beach to find their lunch! He spent seven<br />
years at sea on P&O cruise ships, returning<br />
in 1980 to start up a business on which he<br />
had been hooked since childhood.<br />
He started selling fish aged seven when he<br />
sold a conger eel to a local restaurant, soon<br />
to be followed by lobsters and spider crabs.<br />
At 13 he discovered that, by snorkelling<br />
from the beach, he could catch the much<br />
larger spider crabs found further out. By this<br />
time, the teenage entrepreneur was also<br />
using a boat to catch lobsters already<br />
pre-ordered by restaurants.<br />
As well as running the business, Sean also<br />
enjoys his leisure time at sea. He goes fishing<br />
for fun in his 13ft Orkney Spinner fishing<br />
boat, and is one of the many <strong>Jersey</strong><br />
inhabitants addicted to the incoming swells<br />
of St Ouen’s Bay: ‘I love surfing – that bug<br />
bit me very young, too.’<br />
But he loves nothing more than to take his<br />
second boat, a 36ft cruiser, out to the<br />
magical reefs of Les Ecrehous off the<br />
north-east coast <strong>with</strong> his wife Louise and<br />
their three children to see seals and dolphins<br />
and to collect shells. ‘These remote islets<br />
have gripped me since I was a child and now<br />
I’m introducing my children to that same<br />
feeling… they’re such a special place.’<br />
LES ECREHOUS, SEAN’S FAVOURITE PLACE<br />
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