Editing Lowestoft (section)

===Traditional industries===
[[File:Trawler Mincarlo, Lowestoft, 13th June 2009 (17).JPG|right|thumb|Traditional trawler, the [[Mincarlo (trawler)|Mincarlo]], now a museum ship]]
Until the mid-1960s, fishing was seen as Lowestoft's main industry,<ref name="poppy" /> although from the 1930s the percentage so employed directly and in trades associated with fishing was actually only about 10 per cent.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} Fleets of [[Drifter (fishing boat)|drifter]]s and [[Fishing trawler|trawler]]s caught fish such as [[herring]], [[cod]] and [[plaice]]. Catches have diminished since the 1960s<ref name="bbcfilm">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/topics/fishing/background_decline.shtml Fish stocks dwindle], BBC Nation on film. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref> and although 100 boats remained by the 1980s, there are now only a few small boats operating out of Lowestoft, with no large trawlers.<ref name="aldous"/><ref name="bbcfish27dec07">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7154055.stm Fears for Suffolk fishing industry], BBC news website, 27 December 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref><ref name="bbcfish080630">Madslien.J (2008) [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7448361.stm Fishermen fight for brighter future], BBC news website, 30 June 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref> By 2011 just three traders remained at the town's fish market, which is under threat of closure due to redevelopment of the [[Port of Lowestoft|port]].<ref name="bbc30mar11">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-12908874 Fears for future of Lowestoft fish market], BBC news website, 11 March 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2011.</ref><ref name="edp29mar11">[http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/end_of_an_era_beckons_for_lowestoft_fish_market_1_843560 End of an era beckons for Lowestoft fish market], ''Eastern Daily Press'', 29 March 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2011.</ref> The [[Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science]] (CEFAS), a large fisheries research centre that is a part of [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs|Defra]], is still located in Lowestoft.<ref name="aldous"/>

Other major traditional employers included [[Eastern Coach Works]] and engineering and shipbuilding companies clustered around the [[Port of Lowestoft|harbour]].<ref name="poppy"/><ref name="aldous"/> These included the [[Brooke Marine]] and [[Richards (Shipbuilders) Ltd|Richards]] shipbuilding companies, which together employed over a thousand men but went out of business in the 1990s, and the Norwich-based engineering company [[Boulton & Paul Ltd|Boulton and Paul]].<ref name="poppy"/><ref name="bbc03dec09">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8393399.stm Timber factory closure announced], BBC news website, 3 December 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref> Some shipbuilding and repair still goes on at the harbour.<ref name="bbc28jun08">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7479338.stm 'Oldest' steamship gets £2m refit], BBC news website, 28 June 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref><ref name="bbcwherry">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2008/01/23/albion_gc_feature.shtml New start for grand old lady], BBC Suffolk, 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref>