Dylan Jones
Collection Manager, National History Museum: St Fagans
Jones was born in Ruthin, north Wales in 1969. After graduating from Aberystwyth University with a History degree, he gained employment with the Museum at St Fagans. Jones is currently responsible for the Fishing & Hunting collection, endeavoring to keep alive the memory of these ancient Welsh traditions.
www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans

Keith Jones
Sustainable fisherman
Jones works for the National Trust, an organization that conserves Wales’s natural and man-made treasures. He was the Project Manager for the Porth Meudwy Fisheries Project, an initiative to support ongoing fishing in Porth Meudwy that will ensure a sustained economic and environmental future.He isnow the National Trust Environmental Advisor and assists in moving the organization into a sustainable future.

Roger Hall
Boat restorer and yachtsman
Hall grew up around boats and sailed alone at age 12. After becoming blind in his late teenage years, Hall’s persistence and passion led him to pursue a career in boat servicing. In 1982, he started the company Keelhall’d Boat Services to restore boats and other structures. Hall is supported by his assistant, Sian Dorling, and his guide dog, Ash.

Sian Dorling
Dorling was born in 1959 at Caerphilly Miners Hospital and lived in a small country village. After moving to Penarth, a Victorian Seaside town near Cardiff, and meeting Roger Hall, she became interested in boats at age 17. Dorling has worked with Roger for 20 years as a support worker, and they have worked on many projects together.

National Waterfront Museum
David Jenkins is senior curator at Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. Descended from a long line of Ceredigion seafarers and a fluent Welsh speaker, he writes about Welsh maritime and transporthistory and is currently completing a biography of the Cardiff ship-owner Sir William Reardon Smith. He broadcasts frequently on television and radio, most recently on the acclaimed BBC2 series Coast.
www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/swansea

Karl Chattington
Coracle maker
Although he was not raised in a fishing family, Chattington has immersed himself in fishing culture. He is an expert on the history of coracles and understands the important role they have played in Welsh life. Chattington belongs to the Coracle Society, an organization that seeks to preserve coracle traditions.

Thomas Jones
Mussel farmer
Jones represents the younger generation of traditional mussel fishermen in Conwy. He comes from a fishing family and works alongside his father, Trevor Jones. He is the first university graduate to wield a mussel rake in Conwy, and is committed to continuing the tradition using the sustainable methods that he and his father practice.