Holiday home owners threaten decades-old way of life for Norfolk fishers

Richard Clarke, a third-generation fisher, says the dispute is a huge worry for him and he fears being forced out of fishing. Photograph: Eastern Daily Press/SWNS

For the past 40 years, Richard Clarke has fished for lobsters, crab, herring and bass off the coast of Sea Palling in north Norfolk.

Now, he fears his days as a fisher are numbered after a dispute with holiday home owners about whether he should be allowed to store his fishing boats in a boatyard he uses near their properties.