A contemporary account of the reality of fishing by the wife of a former crewman. Fishing is a hard living and a dangerous one. Every family I know here involved in fishing has lost someone. It was very touching.
Some boats have ice making machines others take ice on board before going to sea.
The catch is mainly megrim sole, dover sole, lemon sole, conger eel, monkfish, cod, hake, and haddock. Most trawlers have 5 crew , skipper, mate, engineer, cook and 2 deck hands. Everybody works in turn on deck and on watch 3 hrs on and 3 hrs off. They fish up to 100 miles out to sea wherever they think the fish are. They put to sea at 12 midnight or 5am.