This Fishing Life

[Steevo]

Anyone else watching?

Refreshing to hear the views of the Bulgarian!!

 

[Treecreeper]

Watched all the previous episodes, it's covered not only fishing but housing for locals and second homes. It's a good point of view from them that knows . Better than the usual BBC fair, probably an independant production tho'.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

It’s been a great series

Love watching it

 

[Bald Rick]

Anyone else watching?

Refreshing to hear the views of the Bulgarian!!

Yes but have got bored. WTF - 6 episodes when it could have been far more punchy condensed in to 3.

Too many of these things go on too long. Missus is watching "White House Farm" but there is another that could have been trimmed

 

[S J H]

Great series, is it not the same production as 'farming life'?

 

[Steevo]

Yes but have got bored. WTF - 6 episodes when it could have been far more punchy condensed in to 3.

Too many of these things go on too long. Missus is watching "White House Farm" but there is another that could have been trimmed

Only "caught" the first episode last night - wasn't aware it had been on before so must have missed it first time around. First episode was fascinating and really had me "hooked".

 

[Steevo]

Great series, is it not the same production as 'farming life'?

I assume so - the title does seem to suggest a connection.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I assume so - the title does seem to suggest a connection.

Not sure if it is the same, there was though a series a few years ago with fishermen from Peterhead. It had to be subtitled for we sassenachs. That was more likely the same team.

 

[andybk]

have really enjoyed it , i hope DEFRA have watched it to ,and dont sell our fishing fleet down the line in next 12 months . Another casualty of cheap food policy encouraging huge technical trawling boats plundering the seas by sweeping up whole shoals of fish , Sustainable small boats that provide a living for a family , has to be way forward ,

 

[Exfarmer]

The trouble is that fishing like farming is a hugely different industry to that of fifty years ago.
There will be no going back to little trawlers out of Lowestoft , to catch the silver darlings for gutting and selling salted, to the Eastern block.
The fishing industry will still be controlled by super trawlers sweeping up everything they can chuck their nets round after echo location has found them. Whether these trawlers have a Scottish or Spanish flag it will make little difference and I suspect the owners and crew will be the same people as today

 

[andybk]

The trouble is that fishing like farming is a hugely different industry to that of fifty years ago.
There will be no going back to little trawlers out of Lowestoft , to catch the silver darlings for gutting and selling salted, to the Eastern block.
The fishing industry will still be controlled by super trawlers sweeping up everything they can chuck their nets round after echo location has found them. Whether these trawlers have a Scottish or Spanish flag it will make little difference and I suspect the owners and crew will be the same people as today

your probably right , but dont forget how things quickly turned regard whaling , at some point it wont be acceptable to public to hoover up huge volumes of fish ,especially when other marine life depend on it for survival

 

[kfpben]

your probably right , but dont forget how things quickly turned regard whaling , at some point it wont be acceptable to public to hoover up huge volumes of fish .

A good friend of mine’s great grandfather had two nascent businesses c.1880. One whaling, the other an oil exploration business.

Following a row over a family will he had to raise some cash and was left with the option to sell one of the two businesses. He decided oil was never really going to take off so stuck with the whaling ?‍.