North sea prawn trawling at christmas
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Welcome aboard , in this episode we spend a day at sea on an hartlepool based commercial prawn trawler . It is christmas Eve and the rest of the fleet are tied up ready for christmas , will the trip be worth it ? What else would you expect to see amongst the catch ?
Watch and find out how the prawns on your christmas cocktail are caught .
I hope you enjoy the video .
Tight lines
And all the best .
#christmas #prawns #trawling
Great video most people haven’t a clue what goes into getting fish to table. People need to start appreciating the fishermen that make it possible.
Thank you for your comment its appreciated. Im glad you enjoyed the video 🐟👍🏻
Intresting to see the variety and volume of the smaller family trawlers at work. Always enjoy these video's , thank you
@@Cckro thank you for your comment glad you enjoyed the video 🐟👍🏻
Great video, very educational thank you for the content, great interview questions too,
@@TrevorTopcat-d2z glad you enjoyed the video . Thank you for the comment and support its appreciated 👍🏻🐟
Never gonna be an easy job to make money, did it myself for a long time, enjoyed my time, txs for posting
Glad you enjoyed it thank you for your comment 👍🏻🐟
I'm surprised that you had very little in your net for all that work.
@@BKKNOW1 thats fishing for you . Sometimes theres nothing to be caught and on odd occasions theres enough to make a living . 🐟👍🏻
Thanks for showing us a view of life at sea for many of our British fishing lads. It looks like a tough life. Always had a lot of respect for the hard working fishing folk, and the farmers as well. All the best.
@@TheBabblingFerret thank you for your comment . Its very much appreciated . I agree its an hard life but a way of life that when its good its really good . 🐟👍🏻
Used to work on the trawlers back in the 90s brought some memories back watching your video. 👍
@@1978JonBullock thank you for your comment glad you enjoyed the video 🐟👍🏻
Whiting, Dab, Dover sole & Plaice. It is great to see these guys still going to sea to try and keep an industry alive that needs Far Far more support from the Government and their local Councils to try and keep it alive for the future generations Really Great VLOG
@@hyime69 thank you for your comment it is much appreciated . 1/4 on the fish ID . 👍🏻🐟
Thanks for taking us along. Can’t beat a decent uk commercial fishing vid! Hope you all had a great Christmas 👌👍
Thank you for your comment . All the best🐟👍🏻
Nice video, though the trends the skipper describes are worrying. I know Andy from the Raglan on Pools match days. He regularly and kindly drops a bit of the by catch off for my son. It would be really sad to see the Hartlepool commercial fishing fleet disappear. Best wishes to all who keep it going, and thanks for taking the time to make a really interesting video. Hope you enjoy that halibut!
Thank you for the comment . Im glad the video was of interest too you . Ps andy is a top lad along with Rob the skipper they will do out for anyone . 👍🏻🐟
Excellent insight into trawler fisherman and a great video overall.... Really Enjoyed...
Glad you enjoyed it i appreciate it
I worked on the rigs early 200’s and a lot of our crew were ex fisherman grafters and loved the 12 hours on 12 hours off shift pattern. Always fascinated by trawling much respect proper workers
@@allnightmike8374 thank you for your comment . Your right about the fishermen they certainly no how to graft . Glad u enjoyed the video 👍🏻🐟
Great video of some of my nearest fishing boats,nice to see.Well done
@@johnward7768 glad you enjoyed the video . All the best 👍🏻🐟
Top notch video this, shows a different side of fishing! one of the best videos you have made mate!!
Really enjoyed it
@@sherman06 cheers for the support sherman . Should of had one of years ago when you where potting with us 😂😅👍🏻🐟
@@thehartlepoolangler haha! dont think i was in any fit state 🤢
Hard work mate. Keep going. 👍
@@anthonyhendley1689 thank you appreciate it 🐟👍🏻
Good to see you back mate. Great little video, a bit different to the norm too. Good effort
Thanm you Chris . Tite lines mate 🐟👍🏻
Good vid tank seen yous come in, best way to spend Christmas eve.
Finger out ye arse get yours out go pro on your roof. All the best for new year hope you have a good one
Cheers mate . All the best to you too .👍🏻🐟
Great vid Ash and an insight into the work these lads do.
All the very best buddy
Cheers Darren . All the best to you too my mate glad u enjoyed the video 👍🏻🐟
Thank you for posting, its a very interesting video, the Guys earn their money. Safe Fishing, and a Merry Christmas to you all.
Thank you for your comment 👍🏻🐟 merry christmas
Brilliant video pal, your what makes the Great in GB doing the hard work behind the scenes. Safe fishing buddy and Happy and Prosperous Safe New Year!👍👍
@@MarkPinnell thank you so much for your comment and support its appreciated 🐟👍🏻
A very good insight to commercial fishing in the north east , enjoyed this
@@jordanspooner7429 thank you for your comment in glad you enjoyed the video 👍🏻🐟
I used to work the trawlers from North sheild's back in the 90s.........Great vid ...brought back memories 👍
@@eyeinthesky74 thank you glad you enjoyed the video 👍🏻🐟
@@thehartlepoolangler yes mate brilliant 👏
Happy days lads good to see you doing this but over fishing and taxes not got god bless you for what you do top men
Thanks 👍 appreciate the comment
Great video mate well done 😊
Thank you for the comment . Glad you enjoyed the video 👍🏻🐟
Thanks so much for your great video thanks loved it merry Christmas to you and all the lads 😊😊😊
Glad you enjoyed it . Merry christmas to you too 🐟
I enjoyed that, interesting to learn new things. Do they get many halibut? It seemed like they weren’t that surprised. I’d be delighted! I wonder if there’s more out there.
Cheers and happy new year.
@@Oli.Brown. thank you for your comment , they dont get lots of halibut one every now and again is about the norm . We had a personal joke going on , of they caught an halibut they would give it to me … very next haul they got one . Hence the laughing on the video .
All the best 👍🏻🐟
Some people work really hard in this world! There’s no need to really just take the chilled 😎 approach to life! But I do like watching hard work!
Oh aye its not a job for the relaxed type, that was a bonny day too . Total different world on a raggy day 👎🏻🙁 all worth it though if the boys get a full lift of prawns
Great video, really enjoyed the full steam and fish hauling. I would have enjoyed being on the boat. No need for background music, the hum of the engines are fine.
The guy from the fish locker channel was fishing from Whitby recently and said a lot of fish had parasites, I wonder if that is the cause of poor hauls, Happy New year to you and the crew !
@@JohnDavis-jf2if thank you for your comment . Im glad the video was enjoyable to you . All the best 🐟👍🏻
Many thanks for such an interesting and informative video. It's a life very few of us can imagine that puts food on the table.
Was the catch considered good, reasonable or poor?
@@cicero2 thank you . Im grateful for the comment . The first haul was considered very poor and would not of covered the expenses . But the 2nd haul was reasonable . If you could get 2 or 3 of them reasonable hauls in a day it would certainly be worth the effort . 🐟👍🏻
Well in the boys. Great video! Was it cod, lemon sole, dover sole? Not a clue really like😂😂😂👏👏
@@johnwesthead4209 haha thanks for your comment , the fish where brill , turbot , dover sole and haddock .
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Nice vid marra.. from the net to the table 👍
Thanks 👍 glad u enjoyed it
Great video, really enjoyed it. What i dont get is why they dont give the bycatch a push down the chute when sorting. Surely getting the little ones back alive is better for future fishing.
@@r10rrr39 thank you for your comment . They do give the bycatch a push once it builds up . U would be suprised at how many actually still go back unarmed.
Also most of the catch is actually within legal size to land , but no real market for them so they go back live as much as practically possible .
Thank you all the best 🐟👍🏻
@@thehartlepoolangler i rekon the gulls will have most of them anyway to be honest. Suprised that more cod/codling dont come up from where they were trawling as its decent shore fishing for cod.
Dredging cockles and mussels in the wash which was the nursery of the North Sea, had a negative affect of North Sea fisheries. We complained and pushed for hand working only which would have kept more fisher families in work rather than the 4 or 5 millionaires. The detriment on fisheries was considered but money and greed always wins.
Totally get what your saying , the big factory ships amongst other things have made the rich richer and the normal working class fisherman poor . 👎🏻🐟
Thanks for sharing,worked on prawn boats catching Banana and tiger prawns in northern Australia,lots bigger than european ones..looking forward to next ones...Happy New Year to all..
@@sulray fantastic comment thank you , do you fish for them the same way as we do or are they caught in pots / traps ? 🐟👍🏻
Pretty much but larger hauls,used to catch so many that we had to dump them over board or give to the construction lads at Cape Lambert,this was back in the seventies,my brother skippered a prawn boat up in the gulf of Carpentaria, used to have topless girls as deckhands, best at picking out the snakes and poisionous stone fish also deadly jellyfish that got caught up in the mix.Not the type of girls you'd take home to your mum.lol.But neverthe less good deckhand from what he told me.He said they looked likecooked crayfish and smelt the same.....lol Guess they were well used to handling trouser snakes lol
@ ha ha ha fantastic story’s. Great reading . All the best 🐟👍🏻
Turbot, Brill, Sole, and i think Haddock 👍 great video, very interesting.
@@Gazzyb2071 thank you for your comment . 4 out of 4 well done 🐟👍🏻
@thehartlepoolangler, glad I didn't get them wrong. I worked at Hodgson's for a few years. 👍
A1 video can't wait to see more
@@davehood3318 thank you for your comment . Its appreciated 🐟👍🏻
Cracking video mate 👍🏻 just wondering what’s the most unusual catch they’ve had that you would never expect to find of our coast 🤔
Il ask the question when i see the lads . And i will comment back 👍🏻🐟
Brill vid mate 👍
Happy New Year! Always hard work o bring in fresh fish t our tables.
@@zworm2 thank you glad you enjoyed the video . 🐟👍🏻
It's great to see you all again I used to be on the fishing boat with oz before he got his new smaller fishing boat or you might know him by his real name what is Andrew well it's great to see all the old fishing boats again from Hartlepool
@@markbailey1247 great to hear from you . Glad you enjoyed the video . All the best 👍🏻🐟
@@thehartlepoolangler and all the best to and your family for the new year from mark in the UK
I just noticed that there was a hole in the net that needs to be repaired and it would be nice to see you learn how to repair a hole in the net even though the hole was in the top of the net and not in the underside or in the cod end of the net m8 well I live in Hull what was the biggest fishing fleet but now we have nothing
@ aye the hole wasnt a great concern as it wasnt in the bag or the cod end . Which boat did you work on in hartlepool mate ?
@@thehartlepoolangler the first fishing boat I was on was called GALATEA her number was WA5 and we sailed her from Whitehaven on the west coast up in Cumbia up through the canal and across lockness and through Inverness and pass Fort George on to the East Coast sailing pass peterhead and into Hartlepool and I was working with Skipper called Adrian Rowland and we had that boat until the Skipper Adrian Rowland bought a new boat called SALACIA and her number was SN34 and he bought her from North Shields in February 2023 and I was traveling by train from Hull to Hartlepool to work with Adrian Rowland and I would stay on the boat even when we didn't go to sea because of bad weather and Adrian would go back home because he lived in South Shields so it was better for him to travel to Hartlepool while I stayed on the boat for some time up to a month or maybe longer but I had to come home because my left knee started to swell up because I found out I had to wait for a operation to have a knee replacement and not been able to get back to Hartlepool yet but Adrian has stayed in touch with me and has told me that he has bought a small boat and he is still prawn fishing from Hartlepool but I can't remember what the name of the new boat is but the two lads on the boat that you was on might be able to tell you m8 because I think Adrian is prawn fishing by himself or he might have his son helping him or if you want to you could always ask Andrew who works in the fish factory where some of the boats land their catch with m8
I used to spend a bit of time on the Heugh and Middleton, green light in my youth and we always caught plenty of cod when we fished there. You didn't have far to walk from the car unlike when we fished the Blast beach at Seaham where we would gather some sea coal and have a blazing fire on the beach to keep warm through the night. We would spend the daytime taking apart the old houses and shops ready for demolition and then a few hours fishing, not realising that Hartlepool was the home of many of my ancestors that worked mainly in the shipyards .
@@BarryFlo58 great story . Thanks for sharing . The cod fishing isnt like it once was . Very hard to find good fishing local now . Tite lines 👍🏻🐟
Cool shots
Thank you for your comment
love the real videos of how hard it is all credit to you
@@andybrown-tl8rt thank you im glad you liked the video 👍🏻🐟
Would this boat have made a net profit for its Christmas eve hUl?
@@johnreed2227 thank u for your comment . most of the catch was given to friends and family for christmas food. After fuel costs where taken .
Whiting ,turbot ,brill and Dover sole 👍
@@markh2615 3 out of 4 🐟
Quite hypnotic watching the sorting love the video look forward to more 👍👏
@@webbest121 thank you for the support i appreciate it and glad u enjoyed the video 👍🏻🐟
Great video … thanks for sharing
@@GETEBEMUFC thank you glad you enjoyed the vid 🐟👍🏻
Brilliant video 😊
Thank you Jay . Tight lines my mate 👍🏻🐟
Great video
@@peterjones1018 thank you for your comment 👍🏻🐟
I worked on a prawn trawler in the west of Scotland it wasn’t permitted to keep any fish was sickening to see so many dead fish flung overboard gulls didn’t complain tho
Thank you for your comment . Aye , shame when theres no quota for fish …. Nowa days theres no fish for the quota lol 👎🏻🐟🙁
Brought back memories when I fished out of North Shields for years.
@@karlnewbold thank you for your comment . Sheilds is still a busyish prawn port now . 🐟👍🏻
@thehartlepoolangler Can they no longer land the Haddock? When I was fishing out of North Shields it was mainly fish but prawns as well in the winter months. Mind you it was over 30 years ago.
@ hi mate , yes they can land the haddocks but 90% of them are chats and pretty much worthless at market. So they put them back the good thing is most of them do go back alive 🐟
God when we landed Haddock we got real good price for them. How times have changed. @@thehartlepoolangler
@@karlnewbold aye, the issue is theres no jumbo haddocks any more . So price is poor . If they where big the price would be good . Best tasting fish in the sea too imo
Brill, haddock, sole ,turbot 🤞
Great video Ash. Its a hard life working at sea.
See when the draw boards go down do they just stay the same width of the boat or do they widing out? Might be a stupid question but always had my head mashed.
Smoothie been stuck in the net n chucked back was class to see them this far north. One could think the lack of prawns about could be with the smoothhounds been more frequent in summer time.
@@Madmicksoutdooractivities 4 out of 4 mick. Cheers for the comment .
The trawl doors stay the same width or slightly wider than what the mouth of the net is . They are there just so the mouth of the net doesnt close up and keep it spread . So to answer your question they go way out wider than what the boat is .
Starting to see alot more smoothounds now aswell , which is good for us lads with the rods as i think we will start picking them up in the right conditions on the shore within the next couple of year .
Tight lines mate
@@thehartlepoolangler cheers for that mate it makes sense now.
Only 1 codling in them hauls to. I cant believe the amount of haddock from the shore and boats over the last 2 years. I've still not had a haddock in in uk lol.
All the best and looking forward to seen more of these like 👍🏼
enjoyed that ,some more like that would be nice ,I fish Redcar rocks its been very poor this winter only seen there codlings pulled out of the marks next to Redcar lifeboat ,.the local divers have said there is hardly any fish on the scars off Redcar ,
@@greenman4141 thank you for the comment its appreciated . I think its the story of our coast atm lack of fish .
Hope ever if u travel a bit further down towards skiningrove the fishing certainly improves 🐟👍🏻
GONE HAVE THE DAYS OF A COUPLE OF BOXES OF GREEN WITH YEA PRAWNS... FLOATING COD END 👎👎, SINKING COD END 👍👍... EXCELLENT VIDEO, STAY SAFE
Thank you for your comment . The green has totally gone now as you say . Not seen any properly since 2010 when we had the bad winter . We where even getting 10 kit a day in the little boat with the gill nets inside . Would take 10 month to get a kit now .
When is your next trip out of Hartlepool m8
@@markbailey1247 not sure yet mate , bad weather atm.
Fished out hartlepool and shields for prawns used to only tow in the day and come in on a night and have a few pints in the headland
Hi martin thanks for your comment , aye same nowa days the winter fishing is day only. Normaly first tow into daylight and if theres out there have the last one coming in dark and away in to land .
In the summer months they tow on a night for the prawns . But its very patchy .
All the best 🐟👍🏻
@thehartlepoolangler back potting out of whitby now spent many a funny night up there some bad heads at work next day what was the pub named in the sqaure up from the Quay was it the ship ?
@ oh aye the ship . Rough owld boozer lol old school lads in there good fellas all the same . Hope the fishing is good on the lobsters and crabs for ya 👍🏻🐟
A lad called cess how used to run greyhounds works on a trawler out off hartlepool was a top greyhound lad just wondering if he's still fishing in hartlepool
Alan if you email me your details i can put you in touch with me owld man 👍🏻🐟
Need more of these videos big views aswell
@@redrum173 glad u enjoyed it il be producing more in the near furure 👍🏻🐟
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@@williamswhistlepipes thank you for the comment 👍🏻🐟
Thanks for replying your dad is a proper man old school tell him I'd love to buy a bag off prawns off 👍
@@alandobbin1794 send me your number and i can pass it on to him 👍🏻🐟
As someone who fished over many years in craft from small to massive its clear to me that there is no living to be had on inshore vessels now. Either go big or go home. My sibling operates a deepsea boat West of Ireland & right up to Iceland & the cost involved is unbelievable. For the hours involved if you were working in a skilled job on shore who would probably be as well rewarded. But as the Skipper there stated its in the blood & its for life. Thanks or sharing & as the say around here as you depart ''A big shot to ye''
@@coughlantom4139 thank you for your comment . Good luck to ya sibling i wish him many tight lifts 🐟👍🏻. I always say imagine a fisherman getting paid for the amount of actual work they do , they would all be millionaires .
Turbot. Brill. Dover sole and a haddock. Nice boat but three boys is surly to much guys!
@LiamMain-o9i thank you for your comment but i dont understand what you mean by 3 boys is too much ?
If you mean the amount of crew … then i dont work on the boat and was only there for the trip to do some filming . The boat gets worked 2 handed . 🐟👍🏻
not to bad a trip for a few hauls helps with up keep of the boat
@@ajw1467 aye first haul was poor , second haul was alot better .
There is either over fishing or something like polution from run off or industry or even sewerage there is always a reason for change in the seas and normaly something in the water
@@eddsummat2191 thank you for your comment . 🐟👍🏻
Mint 🎉🎉
Thank you appreciate it 🐟👍🏻
Brill, Turbot, sole, haddock.
@@jonnijon8370 4/4 🐟👍🏻
Haddock brill turbot and Dover sole
I see that you have birds following you. That is something I thought all trawlers have. Yet I was watching a video of Indian fishermen, not a single bird & as for their catch , the main was a silver fish around the size of a £2 coin. Nothing was waisted, if a fish was thrown back it was by accident. what would you say the reason birds don't follow the Indian trawlers?
@@ColinLennard hi colin thank you for your comment …. You have sort of answered the quistion yourself within your comment …. The main reason birfs follow boats is for a free meal …. The indian boats unfortunately keep everything they catch with nothing going back . Hence no meal for the birds . The birds will no this and hence not follow the boats .
Birds follow the british trawlers, due to the times that they can grab a bit of the byecatch before it manages to swim back down to the depths , but also when boats are catching fish they are gutted instantly bfor boxing up , and the guts go over the side . This providing another meal .
Hope this info answers and is helpful . 👍🏻🐟
We hole in the net there 😂
@@RyanMorrison-b6s aye a noticed it on the footage when watched it back . Luckily its in a part of the net that doesn’t affect its fishing .
@ aye as longs it’s nae in the bag or cod end ur fine haha
Oh aye for sure ha ha . 🐟👍🏻
Turbot brill haddock slips and Dover soles
@@edstrasshine7827 aye thats right. Very rare ya see the big dovers now just mainly slips . Thanks for your comment 🐟👍🏻
Monk fish?
@@dorothybredle7237 unfortunately no monk fish . 🐟👍🏻
Red bass all 4 fosh 😊 good video mate
@@craigbage966 cheers for comment Craig . Not sure what a red bass is though . Tight lines mate
@@thehartlepoolangler red bass 🤣🤣 they are rare "foshes"usually found on the headland 🤣
Once upon a time every coble prawn boat and salmon boats 8n summer all carried a fire arm and any seal spotted was immediately given a lump a lead . Sadly its no longer done , keep there numbers in check is whats needed .
Thanks for your comment . Totally agree . The gill netting game in the northeast is totally finished due to the massively growing seal population .
They are now taking bait out of the bait band in pots . Swimming down the cod end on trawlers also . Most of these seals are not scared of humans and have had human interaction at some point in their lives so see a human as a food source . Imo there needs to be a cull like norway to make an healthy population .
Like the Mediterranean completely overfished, especially by pulse boats with crews of 100+
Thank you for your comment , i heard the pulse boats decimated the dover sole stocks down in the channel aswell ? That is a form of fishing i do not agree with . I hear now it is banned which imo is too little too late .
Its impossible to over fish in a mixed demersal fishery. Long before there are no fish the boats will go bust and the stocks replenish themselves.
What we actually have in the North Sea is too much fish and too little boats catching them. As a result the stocks have grown out of control and there isn't enough feed in the Sea for them. The Haddock and Whiting you see in the video are all small because of a lack of feed. A 5 year old North Sea Haddock will weigh app 400 to 500 grams. A 5 year old Haddock in Iceland (where they fish hard) will weigh 1.5 - 2 kilos.
@ thank you for your comment , i appreciate your oppinion but totally disagree personaly .
The herrings stocks got blitzed years ago off our coast , mainly by the big danish boats , hence the reason there is no proper feed for our fish to feed on , another point is , there is very little cod , hardly any inshore , so how can they grow big when there is none.? Yes whiting and haddock , but the haddock have been very very scarce up untill this year and yes they are all chats .
In response to iceland , the feed is there for the fish to grow on , good herring stocks , same as norway .
Some people say the water quility is alot better some people say the fishing is governed alot better . Imo both of these play a part in the fishing and stocks being alot better there .
@@thehartlepoolangler I said Demersal not Pelagic.
I should post up some videos of us dumping thousand of boxes of Cod at the Seine Net. There are plenty of Cod and Haddock on the main North Sea fishing grounds.
I have been at sea for almost 50 years. What I have noticed is that when a fishing ground gets left unfished for many years it more or less dies off. I believe this is because you need to turn over the soil on the seabed to keep it healthy, much the same as a Farmer needs to plough his fields.
I first started to notice this when hundreds of boats got decommissioned in the late 90's and early 2000's. The areas that kept on being fished still produced good shots whereas the areas that stopped being fished due to the lack of boats died off. You only need to look at inshore Prawn grounds such as the Firth of Clyde, Firth of Forth, Dunstanbury etc. These areas have been fished intensely for generations and still produce plenty of Prawns. However, the areas east of this that were predominately Haddock grounds are never fished by white fish boats anymore as they were all decommissioned and now barren.
@@captainwull again i respect your comment , i can only commen on the inshore waters where i have fished . There is no feed hence there is no fish .
The fish follow feed . If your pelegic fishing for herring or makerel your bound to get alot of cod . They are up in the water chasing the feed . If a bottom trawler towed the same grounds they would probably catch very little compared to what you get .
You are not wrong in what you are saying your whitnessing it first hand and so are we here hence the difference in opponions
Thank you good luck with your fishing .
years ago bought a trawler from hartlepool worst boat i ever owned hl47 nordic star
@@ajw1467 cheers for your comment that name doesnt ring a bell to me , what year was it and who was the owner you bought it from? Sorry to hear she was a poor boat for you
Whitey,sole, turbot, brill ?
3 out of 4 .
Haddock sole turbot brill
Overfishing is real.
It certainly is 🐟👎🏻
@ i personaly think its the amount of big super trawlers now which are scooping up way more fish than ever before . You could say it is over fishing .
Thats just my personal opinion.
On the salmon front around our coast its the absolutely huge seal population that has decimated the stocks , the seals pick the salmon off before they get up the river tees at the barrage 👎🏻🐟
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Hard life and they deserve all they catch....government need to do lots more to help.... (sadly not this one) love to know what that catch made....!!
Thank you for your comment . 👍🏻🐟
thanks for posting do you lads see any B F tuna while out at sea off seaham / Hartlepool how far out from land are you
@@willybendit hi mate , we have not seen any personally . I have heard of them been seen off whitby though .
We where about 6-7 miles off from land
Haddock brill.dover sole turbot