Fishermen and fishwives held a "Box Walk" each September which marked the end of the fishing season, and an opportunity to give presents of money to those in need.

The local Sea Cadets receive training at Fisherrow Harbour and at their Unit in South Street.

Fisherrow is on the John Muir Way, a long-distance footpath along the East Lothian coast, terminating in Helensburgh.

Fisherrow Links offers nine-hole pitch and putt, as well as bowling greens.

Part of Some Terrible Letters from Scotland, James Hogg's response to the cholera epidemic of 1831-32 first published in the Metropolitan magazine in April 1832, is set in Fisherrow.