Well, narrator is speaking Icelandic. I, an Icelander was on a research trip in the Irish Sea 2003 and made this film, and I spoke the text in my home language..

hopefully very soon our waters will be ours.

Nice haul of green :)

The conger eels would be cleaned and iced after the higher valued white fish are iced down, they also would have calmed down a bit by that time, they are very lively when just out of hopper.

Interesting video

What lovely British accents these people have.

I trawled back in the early 70's. Hate to say but all the good grounds were empty due to overfishing. No fish meant going further. Ended up being chased by Icelandic gunboats and I didn't blame them one bit. Overfishing was a problem then and now the problem is taking everything that swims in the sea . Sad.

They were mostly Ling not conger, some will have been but mostly ling are the ones that will almost always be caught up in the mesh of the cod end.

The tounge of the cod is the best part of the fish ! Cod tounge stew/soup is the best ever !

As much as I have become more for fish conservation these days, I do miss working on a commercial boat. Great video, thanks. As much of the negative feedback is about the way of fishing, I would point out that as remaining independent of the EU, Norway was able to protect its fish stocks. The Norwegians actually MANAGE their fisheries and as such, enjoy a very prolific cod fishery as well as many other species. Rather than blaming the methods, perhaps complaints would be better suited, electing people who listen to INDEPENDENT scientists who aren't on the payroll of the govt and when they say no more of a given species, that advice actually followed rather than carrying on fishing for them. Just my thoughts on the negative stuff being bandied around in the comments.

Mooi!

respect

Gutted alive and thrown about. Imagine the uproar if cows and lambs were processed this way

my speaker on the desktop isnt working.

Thanks for your reply well dont get me wrong but i love to hear irish and N. Irish boats in our water i just wish all the fishing been done by french spanish portugese and even wales and england stopped but thats part of our e.u deal to many outsiders fishing our sea and thats killing the industry should only be irish boats in irish waters with funding and grants from the governments. I got the video up on my phone are the crew from diffrent countries sounded like it

Yes, we are in a cooler and less populated area.

my job is a fisherman in Indonesia, can i work on an irish ship sir

Brutal

When you opened the nets, you had a lot of eels (I think they were conger). In the fish processing area, I could not see any. What do you do with the conger eels? Do you throw them back? Is there no market for them?

They were put into a box but I didn't know what happened to them. They were kept, not thrown back I'm sure.

That's cool. I thought they were speaking Irish (gaelic) Glad I asked. Isn't the water cleaner in Iceland than the UK and Ireland?

Have you tried fresh fried octopus ? It's great.

Portuguese?

What language are they speaking?

But I would think the fish that are in a cooler and less populated place would be fresher.

is this trawler irish owned?

Are you working with an Indonesian agency?

you could fish the irish sea for a week and not get any cod that size these days.

Try custard with your fish fingers !

I was a fisherman from 1980 to 1992 and I wish never was. You guys just don't understand what you are doing to our home, our planet!

better than listerning to bagpipes

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The oceans and seas are vast places, almost unthinkable. How can governments know how many Cod there are in our waters? I'm off to buy some chunky cod fish fingers mmmm

Why are Russians fishing the Irish Sea?

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Why are they wearing face shields

She is from Kilkeel N-Ireland. I think that today she is the only trawler from N-I fishing for whitefish in the Irish Sea. The video is from 2003, then there were 20-30 trawlers white fishing there. Cod "saving" is killing the industry.

That's a demise of a species before our very eye's, sustainable fishing is clearly a myth?

No wonder there's no fish left

Like butchering a herd of cows to get one small steak.. time commercial fishing is banned

im gonna throw up

Foreigners fishing our waters again making our boys redundant again- who runs our ruined country/ waters this week ???

Shittest way to die.

its not even an irish boat.

Love fishing....but i have to say i really hate this method of fishing it is not even fun and very harmful to eco system. so much waste aswell. dont blame the cod wen your going bankrupt because there is none left

Trawlers suck, I wish they'd ban them!

I blame blacks

Just listening to the background voices n they r no more irish than Donald trump....

Trawlers suck

I hope in one day the fish he will be finish i never see some big comani make samthing for reproduction and put maybe 10 procent than how much take back with baby fish in the sea.. no respect for comercial fishing...

What language are they speaking?