Fish Town, Series 2, Episode 1

FishTown, Series 2, EPISODE 1
Take half an hour for an insight into the fishing industry in the NE of Scotland in Episode 1 of the BBC fishing documentary FishTown!
Catch it on BBC1 Scotland - 1930 - Mondays
This is the industry, way of life and heritage we are campaigning for.
To take back control of all out water and resources and rejuvenate our fishing to be a sustainable, multi-billion pound industry - a world leader equal to Norway.
Our government MUST NOT trade away fishing a 2nd time by surrendering our greatest natural resource to hollow EU threats on trade in goods and financial services for continued exploitationary access to British waters.
The UK contributes 50% of the waters and 60% of the catches to the common EU pot but only receives 25% of the quotas.
British seafood is some of the finest and most in demand in the world - EU markets have high dependency on our seafood and will continue to post-Brexit.
The government must take back FULL control of ALL our waters and resources and use this freedom to implement bespoke British policy to husband our great resource as a national asset that can inject huge prosperity to rural coastal communities for generations to come.
Any future deals on fishing must be on a STRICTLY annual basis and ONLY when the UK receives a reciprocal value of fishing opportunities in return.
If the above happens we will be a normal, independent coastal state - the equal of Norway, Iceland and Faroe, with a multi-billion pound industry exporting high quality sustainable seafood globally.
Government must have the guts to stand firm that they won't sell out fishing for a trade deal. Something Boris Johnson said would be a "reprehensible" thing to do.
With British policy that - ends the cause of discards; tackles EU owned but UK registered Flagships; repatriates our resources; and ends shore based quota renting "Slipper Skippers", then we will see a rejuvenation to Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Macduff, Banff, Buckie (and all the communities in between) to the boom towns they once were.

[@coreygriff4564]

Please upload as much of this stuff as u can!!!

[@petermacleod5458]

does anyone know the opening tune to this programme?

[@duck56]

Had a really great time in peterheed,late 80s,fishing festival with a guy called alec reid he who is sadly no longer here stayed at his mother's near golfcourse,went to a bar called the union bar when we got there,great night out his family came to meet us then next day early start at quayside,followed by another day on the drink happy times lovely people,and a lovely family hard life on them trawlers

[@duck56]

Think Alec's family had trawlers he was once a trawler man himself then he moved down to south shields with his wife helen,stayed in the fishing game

[@patchthesinclair5896]

When I was at the sea the statistics were that fishing was 7 times more liable to end in fatality than coal mining but in my opinion a thousand times more of a life!

[@andrelloyd4010]

British fishing should be protected along with all primary industries - They fed the nation and provided industry and income to thousands of British families.

[@ianmacdonald5699]

Aye, with Filipino and west African crews.

[@andrelloyd4010]

You didn't read my message correctly Jock ! Its ridiculous whats happened and so many vessels about to pop their clogs are registered and insured in Panama and flying a foreign flag now. Glad you've got good taste in music !

[@MunsterCoffeeSuccesso]

Your comment didn't age well. Now the fisherman is really struggling as never seen before as the EU was buying 80% of the catch. Good luck with your country plunging back 30 years due to Brexit... At least you're a good example for the rest of the EU countries not to follow suit! (aye and get out of Irish and Norwegian seas now) Your protectionism in a globalized world is a shot in the feet.

[@ramaan1]

"Ats a lottae fesh!"

[@jeffreyloftus3617]

I seem to remember the West's buying a £1.5 million boat in another fishing series and harping on about struggling to catch enough fish to pay for it , now there doing the same over a £2 million pound boat , i wonder how much the next one will cost !

[@user-se6vg7mr1z]

So that's quite interesting mate, the "West's" - spending-up big, first with a 1.5 million pound boat, then a 2 million boat, I wonder if there are some "inbuilt caveats" - for them to "get the loans", and also prevalent and importantissimo to look at, what "type" of loans are they, are they "standard" with standard-rate from banks, or "special mates-rates" low interest?? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For instance, if they are spec. mates-rates, with "inbuilt-caveats", maybe they have to "TAKE-AWAY" the Chinese Communist Party, or some "Newbies", recently-arrived bananas from some other place, that's what you call I.C's, otherwise - NO LOAN. EVERY POSSIBILITY WILL BE PUT UNDER THE MICROSCOPE, FROM NOW ON, EVERY BANK TRANSACTION RESEARCHED.

[@peteacher52]

Jesus! @ 8:30; the man's got forearms like Popeye!

[@user-se6vg7mr1z]

Fantastic job by the boys at Peterhead, and down the road at Fraserborough, they are catching the fish, that go into all those fish n chips meals around Britain, they probably grow the potatoes in Scotland as well, good on them. The retired fisherman turned fishmonger Stephan, he is doing a great service for the villagers around the county, where they perhaps can't get to the fish-markets or to the coast, THE-MAN- IN-THE-VAN, can still ferry-the-fish, from the sea to the "valley's". Even better if the fisherman/boat-owners, have their "people" (man or woman), on the port, with the van, the fish don't even have to "go to market" they just go from boat, straight to refrigerated van or truck, and out to the people, cafes and restaurants. *Note: Just a quick mention for Stephan and company in the merry Peterhead Fishing CO-OP, they think that they are "FISHMONGERS"?? YOU SHOULD SEE THE FISH-MONGO'S IN THE SYDNEY FISH MARKETS, THERE ARE WALL-TO-WALL FISH-MONGO'S EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, IT IS FISH-MONGO CENTRAAL, IT IS FISH-MONGO H.Q. THEY HAVE GONE FISH-MONGO BONGO'S. The other day, I went there and had look, what reasonably priced fish was on sale?? And to my surprise, alarm bells ringing, there was a couple of Chinese "office workers" I heard someone say they are just "office assistants" on salaries of $50,000 per year, and they were SPLURGING-UP-BIG-TIME, $300-$350 LOBSTERS - FOR STARTERS, ABALONES FOR BREAKFAST, KING-CRABS FOR GRABS, SEA-URCHIN MORNAY, AND TIGER-PENIS SOUP, IT WAS A SCANDALOUS DISPLAY OF SPENDTHRIFTNESS, ALL FROM OFFICE BANANAS ON "STARTERS SALARIES" , CAN YOU ASK THE BOYS AT PETERHEAD, WHAT'S GOING-ON DOWN-UNDER IN THE SYDNEY FISH MONGOS??

[@paulmuir7971]

Is this boat been renamed by west family and painted blue

[@petermacleod5458]

does anyone know the opening tune to this programme?

[@jase4270]

Yes its called GAY.

[@Mallorcaexplorer2308]

Scotland needs it's fishing quotes back now.

[@Clan501-Scotland]

Shut it you ain't even Scottish.

[@angusmoodie1026]

@@Clan501-Scotland Nae bein funny bit why do you feel there is a need tae point it out. U hiv clearly got nae respect

[@Clan501-Scotland]

@@angusmoodie1026 Nae being funny but why do you feel the need to express your accent while typing KZbin comments?

[@Clan501-Scotland]

@@angusmoodie1026 U hiv clearly not had an education.

[@Conservator.]

Scotland shouldn’t have sold its quotas then. You can’t sell something and still own it. Other countries didn’t allow quotas to be sold to foreign entities, the UK did.

[@geraldswain3259]

Worldwide the amount of undersized fish thrown back dead is scandalous!.

[@isaaclaurenson3860]

Fishermen absolutely hate throwing back fish tho this is why small scale mackerel is so good because you can throw it back quickly when it’s still alive

[@osiversen]

Cute deckhand

[@geebopbaluba1591]

Ole Iversen I hope you’re not a dude saying that!

[@wishiwasfishing76]

Geebop Baluba what if he is?

[@ruthallan7964]

Lobster creel fishing

[@ruthallan7964]

Lobster Lobster creel fishing

[@davehardy2708]

Needs subtitles this

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

Younger brother?🤔 Okay GrammyAuntMom!

[@Huggy963]

There must be a few boys in the west family!

[@davidocallaghan6361]

9 dislikes. Bloody vegans.

[@kieranmilne7097]

N

[@runningbear8088]

As far as superstitious things go on fishing vessel I know for fact having a woman on board is just nonsense but the other ones like leaving on Friday is a no no having a cat on board is a definite No-No those are true but take women on board I've done really well fishing in the North Atlantic with women on board all nonsense as far as that goes as soon as we took the cat off the boat that was the first time we ever hatched it to the hatch cover and I don't care don't leave on Friday leave Saturday morning at 12:01 a.m. trust me you'll be better for it this comes from a Maine fisherman

[@vontrap6942]

In Cornwall UK you will find ACTUALLY that women are in general not wanted on a boat. It does happen but most fishermen don't want women on a boat. Perhaps in the US where most men are sissies, women are permitted because they are stronger than the men, but in Britain they make us quite a bit tougher than you septics.

[@matthewnightingale6543]

Looks like most of his crew come from another country. Don't the local men want the job. Is it cheaper to employ foreign workers ???

[@real_wakawaka]

watched this on tv. Im fine with fisherman but peeved at the trawler guy. Its indiscriminate and throwing back dead young fish. Its outdated tech that needs to be banned.

[@isaaclaurenson3860]

They don’t have a choice it’s the EU rules we absolutely hate having to throw back fish this is one of the reasons we want brexit so we can have a larger portion of the quota

[@antseanbheanbocht4993]

@@isaaclaurenson3860 And how you getting on now? Is it as bad as they say, hard to get acurate information from these poxy news channels now. Thanks

[@isaaclaurenson3860]

Well a few weeks ago there was trucks sitting full of fish and it couldn’t get past the border so basically tonnes of fish wasted

[@antseanbheanbocht4993]

@@isaaclaurenson3860 Terrible, hopefully its sorted out.

[@real_wakawaka]

@@isaaclaurenson3860 as a sea angler i have noticed more fish last year and LOADS of mackerel due to less fishing fleets taking all the fish so close. This has helped the ecosystem. That added with covid has given the fish some breather. Problem with modern tech is no fish is left behind with these big trawlers.

[@toddtaylor6110]

If they only spoke english...