When was a kid 40 years ago in NZ you could not catch any decent sized snapper almost anywhere..used to see trawlers just off the beaches all the time ..just 100 ms out taking everything..then they brought in 12 km limits in the late 90's and suddenly now the recreational fisherman can finally catch a feed for the family with ease again. So I say when this guy spends GBP 1 m on a boat so he can fish more over fished waters in a more intensive manner so he can make more money and same for dredging clams while destroying seabeds so they can make more profit..its all about greed..stupid greed and disrespect for others. Hope they get the 3 mile ban ~ they deserve to make it 12 kms. Fishing for export mainly and wiping out stocks will only guarantee the industry will fail and the local towns will have to survive on Chinese tourists or become ghost towns!
Private Name My opinion is that fishing in such a congested should be stopped completely for 2 years. I know everyone will bad mouth me but flounder fishing in my area was stopped and we had a great recovery.
It only seem fair. The smaller boats have fished for over 100 years. 30 years of trolling has raped the stock and ravaged the sea floor. So if it's fair that the big boats put the little businesses at risk, it's fair for the little guy to get the protected grounds back and the bigger boats move further out to sea (or go tits up). The trollers and dredgers have put almost everyone out of business and that will happen. It's only a matter of time.
Private Name sigh, ur ignorance is staggering. There's nothing in the first world's seas that are "overfished" and hasn't been since the 50s, any and all types of dangerous or destructive commercial fishing has been abolished since the 60s and a few were left till the 70s. Biomass of pelagic and near coastal fishes are best they've been in 100+ years, however, there is no threat or declines from fishing or dams or pollution, however there is ONE thing decimating our oceans and that's the epidemic overpopulation levels of pinnipeds (like sea lions and seals) and dozen and s half species of whales. For example the epidemic overpopulation levels of sea lions and seals in the USA Pacific Northwest and west coast that has been decimating salmonoid populations like steelhead Chinook coho etc the TRUTH is it's the unprecedented epidemic overpopulation levels of these sea lions and seals that have been overprotected for half century, and they absolutely devastate all salmonoid populations and runs of salmonoids both in near coastal sea and mostly in the bays estuarys and rivers where they chase the salmon up to over 100 + miles upriver where it's like shooting fish in a barrel, the salmon and steelhead are more vulnerable in narrow shallow river then in open ocean & they're fighting river current making em even easier to pickoff and the salmon are almost blind because fresh water deteriorates their eyes and the shallow river water with sun bearing down makes them shockingly vulnerable to the sea lions and seals and those bastards eat half their body weight a day in salmon and they are huge a knot head bull make sea lion is size of Volkswagen! And not only they eat half their body weight a day but they kill 15-18 times more lbs of salmon they the thousands lbs they eat because they only swallow the belly meat whichs highest fat content with least and smallest bones, so they eat only the belly meat and waste most the salmon, and, not only that the bastards don't eat the smaller faster more maneuverable 8-12 lb salmon, they decimate the spawning stock larger 20-30-40-50+ lb salmon that do the most breeding and produce much much much more eggs then a small one. So the absolute decimation in USA west coast and pac nor west salmonoids is prime example of the declines damage destruction to sea life at the hands of the current epidemic overpopulation of pinnipeds and whales, whales are even worse, the public's lied to hs no clue they're epidemic overpopulation I'd destroying the seas they eat and gobble up the essential squid shrimp herring anchovy sardines smelt, squid shrimp etc etc that sustain ALL the other life in sea, AND they don't just gobble up the squid shrimp herring anchovy sardines smelt etc but they gobble up the huge schools of juvenile large fish like schooling baby tuna rockfish cod Jack's etc etc by the ACRE, a single adult grey whale for example kills of more tons and tonnage of the most important essential life in the sea lions in six months then a fleet of commercial long line cod or salmon trawlers or squid or sardine seiners does in a year. And people who don't live and work at sea are ignorant and know nothing but the lies they're told in "documentaries" on marine life which ALL are paid for and produced by animal rights groups that are antifishing of any kind and they lie in every breathe, whichs why you've never seen one that didn't falsely fraudulently claim EVERYTHING is threatened over harvested out of habitat etc etc when the truth reality fact is most of it's best it's ever been!!! And they fraudulently grasp at any red herring false excuse for any declines from pollution to dams to overfishing when every knowledgeable person knows any destructive dangerous forms of commercial fishing that's even capable of causing anything to be wiped out was abolished entirely half century ago!! But people Like u are lied to your whole lives and have no clue. So don't ignorantly spout nonsense shout commercial fishing you know less about the truth facts reality of status of the sea then I do about astrophysics!!
@@heatherrobertson34 you have a very good point that should be talked about in a rational manner. Say the phrase "Culling of fur seals" in New Zealand, and oh shit!!!!! Apparently they are indangered. But in June, July, you can damn near walk the Kaikoura peninsula for 3kms from the north without touching the ground if the bloody things let ya.
Yes! More fishermen need to think like that! Luckily in my country of sweden many fishermen think like this! They have been developing smaller trawls which is more selective which both catch less and is less harmfull to the seafloor. Also our fisheries like lobster fishing is highly regulated and now they lobster population is rising again from an all time low:)
Good luck for the next generation with this cancel culture with as weak as these kids are now I see no next generation of anything. It's sad and hopefully I'm wrong
I like it when the captain justify the "by-catch" to be minimal @ 32:45. Nothing that has been shredded by those rakes will show at the surface. I know, from personal experience, when I was a kid, we used to fish smelts way at the end of a cape. We never knew the depth of the water until, 5 years after the trawlers showed up. We could see the sea floor. All the marine flora was uprooted and washed away on the banks. The shelter offered by the kelp was all gone. So was everything else but the starfishes. Effectual is the key. Pick and choose without harming the surroundings.
J McA I fished on the west coast of British Columbia fishing prawns with traps it makes no sense for him to keep setting in the same spot and catching nothing of course, and obviously it makes no sense to set your gear where it’s open to trawlers 😂
@@fandangofandango2022 fishing has been a political pawn for years. If we can look after our fish our fish can look after us. We need to see to the good of stocks and habitat and not be used as a bargaining chip by politicians. It's a marathon and not a sprint.
Same happened to the waters off pembrokeshire. I would catch a bucket of makrel in a couple of hours as a kid. These years you are lucky to catch anything at all, in a whole season.
Did i hear right just then.......... He is on the best boat of his life but he is catching much much smaller numbers than he was 15-20 years ago......AND its not down to over fishing ??? AND it is all up and down the country but its STILL not over fishing.......
There is no way a man with a simple rod and hook can create so much damage ! Its over fishing on a large scale. When all the stocks are gone and the fishermen are moaning they only have themselves to blame ! They need to impliment no fish zones like in Australia, whenthat no fish zone is full then the fish\shrimp move on resulting in more populated areas and more fish stocks.
The point he is making is that their is a decline in stock despite the restrictions being in place on the number of days he can fish. Its a side swipe at the non EU boats who can fish how often they want.
I agree that there is virtually no bycatch to this type of fishing but give a thought what those hooks are doing to the sea bed and the habitat. As the hooks are dragged across the sea bed they will destroying everything in their path and the habitat will take some time to recover before the bottom dwelling life returns !
in south alabama we call them shrimp, I worked on a boat at 5 years old to about 13.. I miss it if I had it my way now that I am 35, I would have never quit knowing that I quit something I loved and it never felt like working
Shrimp and prawn are a different species of animal. Similar but not the same. It doesn't matter when it comes to catching or even eating them in my experience but different nonetheless
Been a deck hand for 8 years now since I was 17 and even when ime not at sea I seem to be watching it online all the best to all the skippers and deckhands I across the Uk 🇬🇧 all the best and I hope you have a great season whatever your fishing
i fished in the early eighties on crab boats , static gear , and beamers , mobile gear . crab and lobster pots are totally sustainable , if the guys catching ALL follow the legal sizing . unfortunately , i met several fishermen who land small crab and small lobster .There was , and still isn't any checks on sizing . I worked in a fish merchants in the late 90's and early 2000's and saw under sized crab and lobster lots . we didn't even have any sizing gauges . i have dived grounds where beamers work , to recover gear , and other than wrecks and rock outcrops , its completely barren . no weed no nothing . just my observations
@UCOah0PDZ6j8Qy_f3T-Wi_zw @UCOah0PDZ6j8Qy_f3T-Wi_zw There are other means of collecting Scallops without destroying the sea bed. If mass dredging continues 1000s will lose their jobs, because there will be nothing left. Dredging kills everything from the eggs of millions of fish, to the weeds and small crustaceans many animals feed on. Imagine if everytime you reaped a field of wheat you just ripped the whole top soil away. Next year there would be no crop nor any crop for the next century.
Thank you for sharing this and the Amazon video. I lived in Kyle growing up and I went to primary school with Ricky Philip, Bally’s wee brother. I still live in Lochalsh and it’s sad to see how much the fishing industry has suffered since massive trawlers from Europe have been allowed to fish in our waters. I also think it’s terrible that trawlers are allowed to fish so close to shore. They cause massive damage to the seabed and the creatures who live there. Lochcarron is an example.
Hi MJ, yes the fishing industry has changed a lot. In the inshore areas where the more sustainable smaller creel boats fish, we're not really affected by any european boats. Most of the damage is being done to inshore habitats by UK/Scottish boats and they are working within the current rules. The only way things will change is by the Scottish Government legislating to move damaging fishing practices out of fragile inshore areas.
My experience of commercial fishing is, take everything you can now, bycatch is regarded as rubbish, rather than the future. I first became aware of this almost 50-years-ago aboard a small 20ft trawler off the Suffolk coast. It has got far worse since, bigger boats, better gear, electronics, etc, no wonder the seas and oceans are depleted.
I'm born and raised landlocked but I'd love to try the life of a fisherman. I know it's long, hard work but the life on a boat at sea really appeals to me. And I could have access to massive supplies of fresh sushi !!
It’s not only that the trawlers and dragging harvests all species and sizes, the sea bed is continually ploughed over and sterilized. Those fishing methods were permitted in Newfoundland, until there was nothing left to harvest and then there was nothing remaining to debate about. I thought that it was worth noting when the captain said there was a steady decline in the available prawns... I believe that he had a really good suspicion why the stocks were declining..
Very good documentary. One point of order, it was the European common fishing policy and not the Thatcher government who introduced trawlers into the 3 mile limit.
The removal of the 3 Mile Limit was recommended by the Cameron Commission report and implemented by the Thatcher Government after lobbying rom the mobile sector. Albeit Cameron proposed several mitigating measures that were not implemented. This was outwith the Common Fisheries Policy.
there are less and less prawns but he said I dont think it is over fishing thats doing it. That trawler drags the bottom strips it clean and ruins the prawn bed= no prawns.The dredging must stop it just ruins the sea bed and totally ruins the fishing for everyone
I have been a Commercial Fishermen for over 30 years ,working both trap fisheries for lobster & Trawling for Codfish / Flounders & Squid . I've worked on Scallopers towing a dredge , All Around New England & Cape Cod Bay , Stellwagon Bank & Nantucket Sound & The North Atlantic East Of The Cape & The Islands . There Aren't Nearly The Boats Today Trawling As There Once Was , The Insore Fishery Has Been Regulated Out Of Existince Practicly ! The Lobster Industry In The Gulf Of Maine is The Most Sustainable Fishery We Have , Other Than Trawling For Squid / Fluke & Conches in Nantucket Sound & East Of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. I've lived through times of Gear Conflict & Seen It From Both Sides . Nowadays there are'nt Many Trawlers Left ! Just A Few Older Local Guys , & Some Of Them Lobster In The Fall Months When The Run Of Lobsters Is Heaviest ! I'm Working On A Fine Vessell Lobstering Out Of Plymouth Harbor, In Plymouth Massachusetts Currently . The Season Started Off Realy Well , But Slowed Down Quickly & Now We Pull 400 Traps A Day for 500 to 600 lbs. That's Pretty Slow Considering .We Hope To See A Big Charge In October, as the water cools off & The Lobsters Start To Migrate Northeast outta The Bay , Then We Should Have A Week Or 2 Of Catching 2,500 lbs. A Day , 5 days a week . We're limited to the size lobster we can take & to 800 traps . Basicly , We Have A 5 Month Season to make a living !!! I See Allotta Similarities in Our Trap Fishery . Although I'd Say We Have Much Better Traps !!! The half Round Style These Guys Fish , Is Old Fashioned & Not Nearly As Productive !!! When Our Fishing Is Strongest in The Fall, & Even Sometimes as Early As August , We Catch 5 to 6lbs. PER TRAP AVERAGE !!! AT $5LB That's A Good Haul !!! I wish All My Fishermen Comrades The Best Of Luck Wharever They Make A Living & May God Bless You All !!! Great Show !!!
What we all have to realize is that when such destructive methods of any sort of harvesting, in this case trawling, from the environment as a consequence ruins ecosystems and relationships between lifeforms that can take hundreds of years to establish and impoverishes not just that environment but communities that rely upon its' health and well being.
Trawl caught prawns are better for supplying volume, keeps the price economical, creels re the select market, look at what the fishermen are paid for their catch
trawlers and draggers harm the sea bottom, if you do it close to shore youre damaging the environment of a plethora of immature species which makes for lesser catches offshore. thats what wise fishermen know for a certainty, its shooting yourself in the foot and killing sustainability
That million pound trawler is a beast, great bulbous bow on an inshore? trawler , how many horse power has he there? Power to the creel boys and the divers! They're the gentlemen of the future. I'm a former trawler man.
I’m sorry but I’d love to see some of these ‘fishermen’ go out of business. They couldn’t care less for destroying the seabed and their trawlers can rust in the harbour for the good of the sea. The smaller fishers are the genuine carers and it’s them that are suffering because of the utter greed of the miserable trawler owners. As for that monster Thatcher I just hope she’s somewhere very very hot.
Problem is people like their cheap food and if they had a choice of the same package at 3x the cost because it was caught by hand, guess which one they would pick. Farms is the only way we will sustain our food supply.
Yep, bait traps and rod fishing are the way to go. Trawlers and long liners should be outlawed worldwide in my opinion. I used to work in the seafood business and seafood is more expensive than beef, but people will pay the higher prices for good quality seafood. You have to protect the species and their habitat. Sadly now days the oceans can't support as many fisherman with the greedy methods but it could if you used more conservative methods once the seafood stocks recover.
Dredges do too a lot of damage! What that guy isn't telling people is that the dredge disturbs pollutants that have settled on the ocean floor. That causes the shell fish left behind to siphon the pollutants in, thus contaminating them. I always ask before I order shell fish if it was dredged, gathered by hand or, "god forbid" farm raised. And if the restaurant doesn't know where the shell fish came from, I don't eat there period.
mike kavanagh these lads are hard workers it's a tuff job life threatening but stupid it has to stop before it's stopped for us we farm every thing time to wake up and farm all the fish etc etc for idiot city idiots leave the good stuff for those catch for them selfs the old lad gets it
agree it is not overfishing,but scrapping the bottom on spawning grounds? That's what happened with our cod fishing industry in Canada. We were fishing on spawning grounds and scrapped the bottom clean. no food was left for the cod to feed.
They have hammered the minch and clyde for too long thats why they are in such a mess.You cant keep rapeing the same area for 100 year and expect it to still fish.
El Patron Escobar the clydes been fished less than ever before and it’s still abundant in the summertime with prawns so I don’t really know what your getting at
All sea dredges should be banned. This guy talking about his dredge should be shot, saying that small amount of by-catch couldn't be hurting the sea bed. The real damage is down below, and he doesn't even mention the possibility. He should go into politics instead, where bullshit is more highly valued.
Once bountiful seabeds around the Hauraki Gulf have been driven to near destruction by dredging dredging the ocean floor for seafood have had a similar impact as would a bulldozer through a rainforest..Except that the fishers can't see the damage they're doing. www.stuff.co.nz/environment/119345269/once-bountiful-seabeds-around-the-hauraki-gulf-have-been-driven-to-near-destruction-by-dredging?rm=m
Regardless of who is destroying the seabed it' must stop. Everybody within the fishing business from government to a ships cook knows it will be the end for the industry unless something is done . Greed greed greed pure and simple.
I've long line gillnetters and crab fish out of the Gulf of Alaska Kenai Peninsula Alaska trawlers are the most destructive thing when you come across a patch where they've been in the ocean it's like a wasteland
As a diver and someone who knows how diverse and delicate the floor of the ocean is, it frustrates me knowing there are people who don't give two shits about the damage a dredge/drag boat does to the earth we live on. Just tearing into the bottom destroys everything their gear comes in contact with. Sometimes, one has to step back and think about, if a dollar is so important and their lives have so much more value than that which they destroy? There are plenty of other ways to make money. There are other ways to fish that stop people from thinking you guys are the Hitler's of the ocean. I have been tasked to cut away drag gear that got stuck on the bottom. I have personally seen the devistation this type of fishing does.
Once bountiful seabeds around the Hauraki Gulf have been driven to near destruction by dredging the ocean floor for seafood have had a similar impact as would a bulldozer through a rainforest..Except that the fishers can't see the damage they're doing.www.stuff.co.nz/environment/119345269/once-bountiful-seabeds-around-the-hauraki-gulf-have-been-driven-to-near-destruction-by-dredging?rm=m
its only right for them draggers to have a 3 mile limit, give the little guy a chance it should be farther if draggers could fish inside it would wipe lobster fishermen here in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
“As you can see theres not much star fish only about 3” yeah because you’ve destroyed them all “ i changed my gearbox... we give back a lot” what did you expect, to make it yourself
bein part Scot...i know...it is fukushima...intervention... bra keep doin and no one will ever slander your intent...Peace and hope always my name is Ross😌👍
When was a kid 40 years ago in NZ you could not catch any decent sized snapper almost anywhere..used to see trawlers just off the beaches all the time ..just 100 ms out taking everything..then they brought in 12 km limits in the late 90's and suddenly now the recreational fisherman can finally catch a feed for the family with ease again. So I say when this guy spends GBP 1 m on a boat so he can fish more over fished waters in a more intensive manner so he can make more money and same for dredging clams while destroying seabeds so they can make more profit..its all about greed..stupid greed and disrespect for others. Hope they get the 3 mile ban ~ they deserve to make it 12 kms. Fishing for export mainly and wiping out stocks will only guarantee the industry will fail and the local towns will have to survive on Chinese tourists or become ghost towns!
Private Name My opinion is that fishing in such a congested should be stopped completely for 2 years. I know everyone will bad mouth me but flounder fishing in my area was stopped and we had a great recovery.
It only seem fair. The smaller boats have fished for over 100 years. 30 years of trolling has raped the stock and ravaged the sea floor. So if it's fair that the big boats put the little businesses at risk, it's fair for the little guy to get the protected grounds back and the bigger boats move further out to sea (or go tits up). The trollers and dredgers have put almost everyone out of business and that will happen. It's only a matter of time.
Private Name sigh, ur ignorance is staggering. There's nothing in the first world's seas that are "overfished" and hasn't been since the 50s, any and all types of dangerous or destructive commercial fishing has been abolished since the 60s and a few were left till the 70s. Biomass of pelagic and near coastal fishes are best they've been in 100+ years, however, there is no threat or declines from fishing or dams or pollution, however there is ONE thing decimating our oceans and that's the epidemic overpopulation levels of pinnipeds (like sea lions and seals) and dozen and s half species of whales. For example the epidemic overpopulation levels of sea lions and seals in the USA Pacific Northwest and west coast that has been decimating salmonoid populations like steelhead Chinook coho etc the TRUTH is it's the unprecedented epidemic overpopulation levels of these sea lions and seals that have been overprotected for half century, and they absolutely devastate all salmonoid populations and runs of salmonoids both in near coastal sea and mostly in the bays estuarys and rivers where they chase the salmon up to over 100 + miles upriver where it's like shooting fish in a barrel, the salmon and steelhead are more vulnerable in narrow shallow river then in open ocean & they're fighting river current making em even easier to pickoff and the salmon are almost blind because fresh water deteriorates their eyes and the shallow river water with sun bearing down makes them shockingly vulnerable to the sea lions and seals and those bastards eat half their body weight a day in salmon and they are huge a knot head bull make sea lion is size of Volkswagen! And not only they eat half their body weight a day but they kill 15-18 times more lbs of salmon they the thousands lbs they eat because they only swallow the belly meat whichs highest fat content with least and smallest bones, so they eat only the belly meat and waste most the salmon, and, not only that the bastards don't eat the smaller faster more maneuverable 8-12 lb salmon, they decimate the spawning stock larger 20-30-40-50+ lb salmon that do the most breeding and produce much much much more eggs then a small one. So the absolute decimation in USA west coast and pac nor west salmonoids is prime example of the declines damage destruction to sea life at the hands of the current epidemic overpopulation of pinnipeds and whales, whales are even worse, the public's lied to hs no clue they're epidemic overpopulation I'd destroying the seas they eat and gobble up the essential squid shrimp herring anchovy sardines smelt, squid shrimp etc etc that sustain ALL the other life in sea, AND they don't just gobble up the squid shrimp herring anchovy sardines smelt etc but they gobble up the huge schools of juvenile large fish like schooling baby tuna rockfish cod Jack's etc etc by the ACRE, a single adult grey whale for example kills of more tons and tonnage of the most important essential life in the sea lions in six months then a fleet of commercial long line cod or salmon trawlers or squid or sardine seiners does in a year. And people who don't live and work at sea are ignorant and know nothing but the lies they're told in "documentaries" on marine life which ALL are paid for and produced by animal rights groups that are antifishing of any kind and they lie in every breathe, whichs why you've never seen one that didn't falsely fraudulently claim EVERYTHING is threatened over harvested out of habitat etc etc when the truth reality fact is most of it's best it's ever been!!! And they fraudulently grasp at any red herring false excuse for any declines from pollution to dams to overfishing when every knowledgeable person knows any destructive dangerous forms of commercial fishing that's even capable of causing anything to be wiped out was abolished entirely half century ago!! But people Like u are lied to your whole lives and have no clue. So don't ignorantly spout nonsense shout commercial fishing you know less about the truth facts reality of status of the sea then I do about astrophysics!!
Sounds like you are very knowledgeable and I believe you. It' very sad that that know one will listen. Really pisses me off...
@@heatherrobertson34 you have a very good point that should be talked about in
a rational manner. Say the phrase "Culling of fur seals" in New Zealand, and
oh shit!!!!!
Apparently they are indangered. But in June, July, you can damn near walk the
Kaikoura peninsula for 3kms from the north without touching the ground if the
bloody things let ya.
"Leave something for the next generation. Otherwise, what's the point of being here?" Amen!
Jim Marshall true I want to be a skipper and ther will be nothing left for my gen
Yes! More fishermen need to think like that! Luckily in my country of sweden many fishermen think like this! They have been developing smaller trawls which is more selective which both catch less and is less harmfull to the seafloor. Also our fisheries like lobster fishing is highly regulated and now they lobster population is rising again from an all time low:)
Good luck for the next generation with this cancel culture with as weak as these kids are now I see no next generation of anything. It's sad and hopefully I'm wrong
I like it when the captain justify the "by-catch" to be minimal @ 32:45. Nothing that has been shredded by those rakes will show at the surface. I know, from personal experience, when I was a kid, we used to fish smelts way at the end of a cape. We never knew the depth of the water until, 5 years after the trawlers showed up. We could see the sea floor. All the marine flora was uprooted and washed away on the banks. The shelter offered by the kelp was all gone. So was everything else but the starfishes. Effectual is the key. Pick and choose without harming the surroundings.
yup little by-catch BUT you killed the sea bed
We have the same problem in South Africa. Trawlers are killing everything! Stripping the sea bed of every form of life!
Yeah, that's because they think about "leaving something for the next generation". 🙄
Illeagal Chinese trawlers more like
I really respect the crew of Nemesis for their attitude towards preserving prawn stocks
bmxwaffle yeah because they’re small independently owned all the other boats are industrial… Probably owned by Some greedy company
J McA I fished on the west coast of British Columbia fishing prawns with traps it makes no sense for him to keep setting in the same spot and catching nothing of course, and obviously it makes no sense to set your gear where it’s open to trawlers 😂
The Old Gentleman Made sense about putting something back for Tomorrow.
a true fisherman whos not in it for money or a corporation
If there is no future there can be no justification, we can't Rob our children.
@@patchthesinclair5896 The UK Fishermen have Been Robbed off the Grounds to Work
thanks to the EU Deals.
It is All Wrong.
@@fandangofandango2022 fishing has been a political pawn for years. If we can look after our fish our fish can look after us. We need to see to the good of stocks and habitat and not be used as a bargaining chip by politicians. It's a marathon and not a sprint.
Unfortunately there's always the greedy & criminals who don't give a damn about tomorrow or the future.
Same happened to the waters off pembrokeshire. I would catch a bucket of makrel in a couple of hours as a kid. These years you are lucky to catch anything at all, in a whole season.
Maybe their migration route changed. Global warming? Everything changes as we get older, don't ya just hate it.
Did i hear right just then.......... He is on the best boat of his life but he is catching much much smaller numbers than he was 15-20 years ago......AND its not down to over fishing ??? AND it is all up and down the country but its STILL not over fishing.......
+John Stone yeah I was thinking the same thing, I deffinately think the trawlers fucked the inland fishing zone up,
There is no way a man with a simple rod and hook can create so much damage ! Its over fishing on a large scale. When all the stocks are gone and the fishermen are moaning they only have themselves to blame ! They need to impliment no fish zones like in Australia, whenthat no fish zone is full then the fish\shrimp move on resulting in more populated areas and more fish stocks.
Do you know much about fishing then
+John Stone Reckon you right John no fish zones is the way. Is sad but dont think this will happen, too much greed in the world.
The point he is making is that their is a decline in stock despite the restrictions being in place on the number of days he can fish. Its a side swipe at the non EU boats who can fish how often they want.
If you think a scallop dredge does little harm to the bottom tow it across your potato garden!
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Hasn't the potatoes suffered enough? 🥔 🇨🇮
Yes but your potatoes would be collected and the ground turned over ready for the next batch!
@@pauljjohnson7525 exactly what I was thinking. Lol.
Job done, no problem.
brilliant!
I love to watch all over again and again.
I agree that there is virtually no bycatch to this type of fishing but give a thought what those hooks are doing to the sea bed and the habitat. As the hooks are dragged across the sea bed they will destroying everything in their path and the habitat will take some time to recover before the bottom dwelling life returns !
in south alabama we call them shrimp, I worked on a boat at 5 years old to about 13.. I miss it if I had it my way now that I am 35, I would have never quit knowing that I quit something I loved and it never felt like working
Shrimp and prawn are a different species of animal. Similar but not the same. It doesn't matter when it comes to catching or even eating them in my experience but different nonetheless
Been a deck hand for 8 years now since I was 17 and even when ime not at sea I seem to be watching it online all the best to all the skippers and deckhands I across the Uk 🇬🇧 all the best and I hope you have a great season whatever your fishing
i fished in the early eighties on crab boats , static gear , and beamers , mobile gear . crab and lobster pots are totally sustainable , if the guys catching ALL follow the legal sizing . unfortunately , i met several fishermen who land small crab and small lobster .There was , and still isn't any checks on sizing . I worked in a fish merchants in the late 90's and early 2000's and saw under sized crab and lobster lots . we didn't even have any sizing gauges . i have dived grounds where beamers work , to recover gear , and other than wrecks and rock outcrops , its completely barren . no weed no nothing . just my observations
this was brilliant .. loved it
The baited traps seems like the sustainable way
there dealing with that with Maine shrimp its closed but it should be all trapping
I have dived over a recently dredged scallop bed, it resembled the surface of the moon. :(
What... you mean untouched & never set upon whilst even considering this vid a conspiracy 🤔
When was the last time you dove on a coral reef? 80% of Hawaii’s are all but dead
How was it when you went and seen the moons surface 😕
@@bigste5771 Idiot I have seen pictures and film of the lunar surface. It is barren and devoid of life. Have you never heard of a metaphor?
@UCOah0PDZ6j8Qy_f3T-Wi_zw @UCOah0PDZ6j8Qy_f3T-Wi_zw There are other means of collecting Scallops without destroying the sea bed. If mass dredging continues 1000s will lose their jobs, because there will be nothing left. Dredging kills everything from the eggs of millions of fish, to the weeds and small crustaceans many animals feed on. Imagine if everytime you reaped a field of wheat you just ripped the whole top soil away. Next year there would be no crop nor any crop for the next century.
Having been working in a Highland hotel,i came across "Langostine",beautiful fresh,best thing ever.
02:46 "...Dochus Dochan, has been learning the ropes for the last 4 years". That was literal.
Scallop dredgers must be the most destructive form of fishing ever ,destroying all sealife on the bottom
Serioulsy how can people not like Langoustines or prawns... they are amazing!
Thank you for sharing this and the Amazon video. I lived in Kyle growing up and I went to primary school with Ricky Philip, Bally’s wee brother. I still live in Lochalsh and it’s sad to see how much the fishing industry has suffered since massive trawlers from Europe have been allowed to fish in our waters. I also think it’s terrible that trawlers are allowed to fish so close to shore. They cause massive damage to the seabed and the creatures who live there. Lochcarron is an example.
Hi MJ, yes the fishing industry has changed a lot. In the inshore areas where the more sustainable smaller creel boats fish, we're not really affected by any european boats. Most of the damage is being done to inshore habitats by UK/Scottish boats and they are working within the current rules. The only way things will change is by the Scottish Government legislating to move damaging fishing practices out of fragile inshore areas.
The oldest rule in nature: Take what you need not what you can.
That's the trouble with the work of a waterman, they reap yet they do not sow
My experience of commercial fishing is, take everything you can now, bycatch is regarded as rubbish, rather than the future. I first became aware of this almost 50-years-ago aboard a small 20ft trawler off the Suffolk coast. It has got far worse since, bigger boats, better gear, electronics, etc, no wonder the seas and oceans are depleted.
Fab program & these guys deserve better days & i hope they come back soon ?? Cheers for the upload....
Finally a decent documentary about commercial fishing. None of this Discovery / Nat Geo bullshit.
I'm born and raised landlocked but I'd love to try the life of a fisherman. I know it's long, hard work but the life on a boat at sea really appeals to me. And I could have access to massive supplies of fresh sushi !!
It’s not only that the trawlers and dragging harvests all species and sizes, the sea bed is continually ploughed over and sterilized.
Those fishing methods were permitted in Newfoundland, until there was nothing left to harvest and then there was nothing remaining to debate about. I thought that it was worth noting when the captain said there was a steady decline in the available prawns... I believe that he had a really good suspicion why the stocks were declining..
In Alaska the Department of fish and game is called the Department of fish all gone. The mismanagement of the fishing stock is baffling
the balance is gone 4 sure . but theres still plenty crab to be fished
They need to fix this problem before the seafood stocks are wiped out !!
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Very good documentary.
One point of order, it was the European common fishing policy and not the Thatcher government who introduced trawlers into the 3 mile limit.
The removal of the 3 Mile Limit was recommended by the Cameron Commission report and implemented by the Thatcher Government after lobbying rom the mobile sector. Albeit Cameron proposed several mitigating measures that were not implemented. This was outwith the Common Fisheries Policy.
What hasn't the government fkd up.
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Especially with brexit
there are less and less prawns but he said I dont think it is over fishing thats doing it. That trawler drags the bottom strips it clean and ruins the prawn bed= no prawns.The dredging must stop it just ruins the sea bed and totally ruins the fishing for everyone
What a Great and Wonderful Doco.
I have been a Commercial Fishermen for over 30 years ,working both trap fisheries for lobster & Trawling for Codfish / Flounders & Squid . I've worked on Scallopers towing a dredge , All Around New England & Cape Cod Bay , Stellwagon Bank & Nantucket Sound & The North Atlantic East Of The Cape & The Islands . There Aren't Nearly The Boats Today Trawling As There Once Was , The Insore Fishery Has Been Regulated Out Of Existince Practicly ! The Lobster Industry In The Gulf Of Maine is The Most Sustainable Fishery We Have , Other Than Trawling For Squid / Fluke & Conches in Nantucket Sound & East Of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
I've lived through times of Gear Conflict & Seen It From Both Sides . Nowadays there are'nt Many Trawlers Left ! Just A Few Older Local Guys , & Some Of Them Lobster In The Fall Months When The Run Of Lobsters Is Heaviest ! I'm Working On A Fine Vessell Lobstering Out Of Plymouth Harbor, In Plymouth Massachusetts Currently . The Season Started Off Realy Well , But Slowed Down Quickly & Now We Pull 400 Traps A Day for 500 to 600 lbs.
That's Pretty Slow Considering .We Hope To See A Big Charge In October, as the water cools off & The Lobsters Start To Migrate Northeast outta The Bay , Then We Should Have A Week Or 2 Of Catching 2,500 lbs. A Day ,
5 days a week . We're limited to the size lobster we can take & to 800 traps . Basicly , We Have A 5 Month Season to make a living !!! I See Allotta Similarities in Our Trap Fishery . Although I'd Say We Have Much Better Traps !!! The half Round Style These Guys Fish , Is Old Fashioned & Not Nearly As Productive !!! When Our Fishing Is Strongest in The Fall, & Even Sometimes as Early As August , We Catch 5 to 6lbs. PER TRAP AVERAGE !!! AT $5LB That's A Good Haul !!!
I wish All My Fishermen Comrades The Best Of Luck Wharever They Make A Living & May God Bless You All !!! Great Show !!!
good show , ty
'leave something for the next generation'.. grand old Scot right there..
What we all have to realize is that when such destructive methods of any sort of harvesting, in this case trawling, from the environment as a consequence ruins ecosystems and relationships between lifeforms that can take hundreds of years to establish and impoverishes not just that environment but communities that rely upon its' health and well being.
Trawl caught prawns are better for supplying volume, keeps the price economical, creels re the select market, look at what the fishermen are paid for their catch
trawlers and draggers harm the sea bottom, if you do it close to shore youre damaging the environment of a plethora of immature species which makes for lesser catches offshore. thats what wise fishermen know for a certainty, its shooting yourself in the foot and killing sustainability
To build your house, people had to harm the earth. Along with every other building. Scalloping isn't so bad. The bottom recovers.
@@rightcoast7049 that's what they all say but the fact is that it affect your stocks
@@rightcoast7049 Not for bloody years ,been twenty here and it still aint bloody recovered , GET YOUR FACTS WRIGHT.
That million pound trawler is a beast, great bulbous bow on an inshore? trawler , how many horse power has he there? Power to the creel boys and the divers! They're the gentlemen of the future. I'm a former trawler man.
thanks captain.minimal fishing and dont harvest some small prawns.let the next generation enjoy the food they can get from the river.ocean and sea.
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I’m sorry but I’d love to see some of these ‘fishermen’ go out of business. They couldn’t care less for destroying the seabed and their trawlers can rust in the harbour for the good of the sea. The smaller fishers are the genuine carers and it’s them that are suffering because of the utter greed of the miserable trawler owners. As for that monster Thatcher I just hope she’s somewhere very very hot.
Problem is people like their cheap food and if they had a choice of the same package at 3x the cost because it was caught by hand, guess which one they would pick. Farms is the only way we will sustain our food supply.
Spoken like a TRUE COMMUNIST!!
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Yep, bait traps and rod fishing are the way to go. Trawlers and long liners should be outlawed worldwide in my opinion. I used to work in the seafood business and seafood is more expensive than beef, but people will pay the higher prices for good quality seafood. You have to protect the species and their habitat. Sadly now days the oceans can't support as many fisherman with the greedy methods but it could if you used more conservative methods once the seafood stocks recover.
i have watched a few fishing documentaries today and fisherman all say that there is no more fish.
So good content!!!
Thatcher could not leave even three miles to the small boat sector.
sgtcrab1 well said
Silly lady
Greetings from Indonesia, the Aru Maluku Islands, healthy greetings, always thanks for the support
Thanks Mark, brill.
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"I know which end of the prawn is up." - Nixie
Dredges do too a lot of damage! What that guy isn't telling people is that the dredge disturbs pollutants that have settled on the ocean floor. That causes the shell fish left behind to siphon the pollutants in, thus contaminating them. I always ask before I order shell fish if it was dredged, gathered by hand or, "god forbid" farm raised. And if the restaurant doesn't know where the shell fish came from, I don't eat there period.
These Lads work hard for their money, The best of luck to them.
mike kavanagh these lads are hard workers it's a tuff job life threatening but stupid it has to stop before it's stopped for us we farm every thing time to wake up and farm all the fish etc etc for idiot city idiots leave the good stuff for those catch for them selfs the old lad gets it
agree it is not overfishing,but scrapping the bottom on spawning grounds? That's what happened with our cod fishing industry in Canada. We were fishing on spawning grounds and scrapped the bottom clean. no food was left for the cod to feed.
"There's a decline in the catches all up and down the Minches, I Dunno what's causing it! But I know it's not overfishing" Frikkin MUPPET!
They have hammered the minch and clyde for too long thats why they are in such a mess.You cant keep rapeing the same area for 100 year and expect it to still fish.
El Patron Escobar the clydes been fished less than ever before and it’s still abundant in the summertime with prawns so I don’t really know what your getting at
Why are these boats not fishing other areas around Norway for king crab? They are taking over and have a huge profit potential.
Greetings from Indonesia, the Rau Maluku Islands, always healthy greetings
I just want to know if that kids actually going to be a rocket scientist I hope he is
Scallop dredges should be banned. ,!!
All sea dredges should be banned. This guy talking about his dredge should be shot, saying that small amount of by-catch couldn't be hurting the sea bed. The real damage is down below, and he doesn't even mention the possibility. He should go into politics instead, where bullshit is more highly valued.
Go fuck your self
Jim Marshall you too
Once bountiful seabeds around the Hauraki Gulf have been driven to near destruction by dredging
dredging the ocean floor for seafood have had a similar impact as would a bulldozer through a rainforest..Except that the fishers can't see the damage they're doing.
www.stuff.co.nz/environment/119345269/once-bountiful-seabeds-around-the-hauraki-gulf-have-been-driven-to-near-destruction-by-dredging?rm=m
@@claytonvlogs9411 you fucking stupid?
the prawns probably know youre coming lol
Regardless of who is destroying the seabed it' must stop. Everybody within the fishing business from government to a ships cook knows it will be the end for the industry unless something is done . Greed greed greed pure and simple.
I've long line gillnetters and crab fish out of the Gulf of Alaska Kenai Peninsula Alaska trawlers are the most destructive thing when you come across a patch where they've been in the ocean it's like a wasteland
He said the stocks are not as good as years ago as the nets come over full as prawns, I wonder why.
Obviously not over fishing.
Scratches head🤔. I know my nets were here yesterday. I wonder where they went?
It is unbelievable happen to us this universe !! where is it ?
The tide waits for no man.
Любая гонка приносит кому-то победу тщеславия, а для кого-то трагедию. Каждый рыбак, как человек заложник этой гонки.
41:39 Oof bally you hard man........🤨🙄
A real Seaman always talk what might be
Canada loves prawns
Great stuff love anything like this brilliant quality 👍
29:00 that's the most destructive kind of fishing
"anyone can come aboard and see we aren't catching any fish" aye, because there are none left.
TO MUCH OVER FISHING WITH YOUR FANCY NEW BOAT!! AND OTHERS!!
Prawn tails sold to America as baby lobsters 😂,
Is that the bibby Stockholm in Shetland
I’m watching this 7 years after 🤔 wondering how’s it going nowadays, has there been any change within management?
Unfortunately there hasn't been any real positive change - it's very much the same as in the video.
You have to know there is a difference from commercial and industrial fishing .
Prawn Stars
fished out...
A trawler captain who's saying that overfishing is not the reason while there catch is declining should not be driving a fishing boat. Any kind of it.
As a diver and someone who knows how diverse and delicate the floor of the ocean is, it frustrates me knowing there are people who don't give two shits about the damage a dredge/drag boat does to the earth we live on. Just tearing into the bottom destroys everything their gear comes in contact with. Sometimes, one has to step back and think about, if a dollar is so important and their lives have so much more value than that which they destroy? There are plenty of other ways to make money. There are other ways to fish that stop people from thinking you guys are the Hitler's of the ocean. I have been tasked to cut away drag gear that got stuck on the bottom. I have personally seen the devistation this type of fishing does.
Once bountiful seabeds around the Hauraki Gulf have been driven to near destruction by dredging the ocean floor for seafood have had a similar impact as would a bulldozer through a rainforest..Except that the fishers can't see the damage they're doing.www.stuff.co.nz/environment/119345269/once-bountiful-seabeds-around-the-hauraki-gulf-have-been-driven-to-near-destruction-by-dredging?rm=m
Best boat and smaller catch.Hmmmm what could the answer possibly be? Obviously not over fishing is it
its only right for them draggers to have a 3 mile limit, give the little guy a chance it should be farther if draggers could fish inside it would wipe lobster fishermen here in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
I heard right,crew needed sleep 14 hours a day...?
When does governments ever manage anything well.
Scotland ..lovely place
hungry for some prawns now...which are lobsters? im confused lol prawns to me were raised in some man made pond thingy like crawfish/crawdads
This is heartbreaking to watch.
Lack of catch is almost always from overfishing. Reacurring story around the world.
Its never over fishing lol ffs....
I would love to eat these prawns
Ammonion Nitrate would work well as an incentive to leave the pots alone. the trawlers would hate loosing gear
“As you can see theres not much star fish only about 3” yeah because you’ve destroyed them all
“ i changed my gearbox... we give back a lot” what did you expect, to make it yourself
its seafood farming time just like every other country - and if cant farm it cut more limits
"Leave something for the next generation" instead we got "Leave nothing for the next generation"
Love Scottish accent!!!!
Trouble with UK Government's, they put an MP in charge of fisheries, who a week previously was office teaboy.
i like old head at 17:00 he said it right.
bein part Scot...i know...it is fukushima...intervention... bra keep doin and no one will ever slander your intent...Peace and hope always my name is Ross😌👍
32:58 har har har