Trawlermen (2006) s01e03 Episode Script
The Edge
1 Tonight, as the cream of the Peterhead fleet head for home new boy Ryan wonders if he'll ever make it as a fisherman.
Skipper Jimmy considers a career change.
I think I should have been a farmer this week.
And Kevin's fed up with not catching enough fish.
This is our emergency plan.
These are the men who do the most dangerous Job in Britain.
180 miles from Scotland, trawlers Ryanwood and Castlewood are fishing in Norwegian waters.
Last year they caught fish worth more then £2 million, making them the most successful pair trawlers in the UK.
Ryanwood skipper Kevin West has 25 years of experience at sea, but 17-year-old Ryan is only four days into the Job.
He's got a golden opportunity to secure a berth on the richest boat in the fleet.
But suffering from seasickness, Ryan's barely been able to work and has yet to impress Kevin.
I just - I just let him know what what was expected of him.
And I think he's turned the corner.
And he seems to be happier.
Maybe.
Being a trawlerman is a tough, physically demanding Job, where only the strong survive.
Ryan will have to prove himself by doing everything, from helping to bring in the haul to cleaning the skipper's windows.
It's the young boy's job to, er keep the windows nice and clean so we can see everything.
He's made the windows worse.
They look dirtier now than they were before he started cleaning them.
Have to give him a lesson in how to wash windows correctly.
But Kevin's got more to worry about than Ryan.
Halfway through the trip, he's not catching enough fish.
A poor start.
20 boxes is no use for two boats.
The pressure starts now.
The fun's over now.
In the hope of a big haul, Kevin and the skipper on Castlewood cast their net again, and stretch it over half a mile between them.
If they don't find some fish soon, it will be a poor payday for the crew.
So far, first mate Martin in charge of the fish room has only filled 300 of their 700 boxes.
Still a long way to go.
A long way to go.
We've still got to fill all these.
You see them here.
All these.
To be quite honest, the way I'm fishing as skipper this week I suppose he couldn't do a worse job, so maybe it's just decided he's going to take over.
Ryan, this is the emergency plan.
(Ryan laughs) This is our emergency plan when things don't don't go well.
I think we'll maybe have to take the rods out.
If we don't take fish this haul, Ryan, you'll be standing on the stern of the ship with a rod.
100 miles away, skipper Jimmy Buchan and his crew are aboard the trawler Amity.
They're fishing for prawns at the Devil's Hole.
And after nine days at sea, Jimmy has finally hit the Jackpot.
Look at this one.
An absolute beauty.
These are the fellas we're after.
Nice.
Beautiful.
But their trip hasn't been easy.
They've survived force 10 gales, suffered a near capsize, ripped both nets and travelled over 400 miles in their hunt for prawns.
But Just when their luck has changed, disaster strikes.
Their nets are in the water and the hydraulics have broken.
They can't get the nets back on board.
Bit worried, to be quite honest.
It appears I've got a hydraulic pump going down.
And, er Won't really know until we've finally taken the full weight of the gear up off the sea bed.
Yeah, the hydraulics are making very heavy noises right now.
I just hope we'll get this net hauled before the pump goes on us.
If we don't, we might have to drop our gear cos we wouldn't be able to get it aboard.
The nets are worth £30,000.
If they have to leave them on the bottom of the sea, Jimmy and his crew will be seriously out of pocket.
Stone in this side.
Another stone.
We've got a hydraulic pump down.
And that's the side the stone's on, so it couldn't it couldn't be worse.
So we're struggling to get the net on board this side.
It's just nightmare after nightmare since we came away.
Using a line from another pulley, Kevin is finally able to bring the net up to the back of the boat.
But it's not the catch they were hoping for.
- All right to go ahead? - Aye.
That's how we lose gear.
We're lucky we got her up because we got We managed to take this rope off the net, and we got it onto the middle winch.
If we couldn't do that, we wouldn't have the power to heave her.
Simple as that.
I've had enough now.
I want to go home.
(Laughs) Think I should have been a farmer this week.
Planted some sweet potatoes, some carrots, nice cabbage.
In the ten years that I've been trawling for prawns, I've never seen the mud so bad.
From the mud emerges the pink gold that Jimmy's been looking for.
These are some of the biggest and most prized cold-water prawns in the world, and they'll go on to grace plates in restaurants throughout Europe.
Beautiful prawns.
This is as good as you'll find, these prawns.
Look at that for quality.
Look at that.
Absolutely crackers.
The size of them.
They're gorgeous, aren't they? These are the best prawns I've seen aboard this boat.
As Kevin fills the fish room with prawns, Jimmy is in the engine room inspecting the hydraulics.
He's been trying to keep them going long enough to finish the trip, but it seems that his efforts have been in vain.
It looks like I'm going to have to go back to port.
We were battling against all the elements, and it was starting to turn good and now this happens.
I'm really disappointed.
I think once the rest of the crew find out, they'll be absolutely fuming.
Unable to continue fishing, Jimmy breaks the bad news to the others.
Well, boys, I suppose you've kind of guessed it's bad news with the hydraulics.
Ah, we haven't had too much luck down there, have we? No.
There's just too much mud.
Stones.
I think we're very lucky we didn't lose some gear today.
We were lucky to get it all back.
So I'll just have to sing a song and be happy.
Reluctantly, Jimmy sets course for his home port of Peterhead, 100 miles away, leaving the good fishing grounds behind him.
90 miles to the east, skipper Kevin on Ryanwood is desperate for a good catch.
His fish hold is only half full and the number of days the government allows him to fish at sea are running out.
He's bringing in the net, which weighs the equivalent of a double-decker bus, stretching the ropes to breaking point.
Martin knows what can happen when warps are pushed to the limits.
With the weight of the net, sometimes they could break.
It will either hit me or you.
If it hit you, oh, you wouldn't know about it.
Suddenly the wire shudders to a stop.
(Clanging) (Cries of effort) Half a mile of steel cable, an inch thick, has twisted so badly that they can't get the fish on board.
The last thing you want to do when you're heaving up is, er is you have to stop the boat, take the strain off the net.
Because whenever you take the strain off the net, everything goes slack, and the fish can escape, so it is quite frustrating when something like that happens.
- Heave it up - (Clanging) Bloody hell.
Losing fish is the least of Kevin's worries.
His priority is the safety of his crew, starting with rookie Ryan.
Trawlermen are 30 times more likely to die doing their Job than the average worker.
Cameron the cook understands the dangers of the current situation all too well.
We were standing in the quarter, in the boat, taking the twists out of the sweeps, and I got washed overboard.
Neville, will you keep your feet clear? Just keep your feet clear.
I was kind of unconscious, so I couldn't actually describe what it felt like in the water.
I just remember being face down in the water.
It was a nasty experience for for ten minutes.
If the wire all on the side just now was to break, they could be dragged over the side.
It stopped me going to sea for about two weeks.
That's it.
Back again.
(Laughs) Glutton for punishment.
That's it.
Clear now, yeah.
With the cable clear, they bring in the few fish that remain in the net.
There's another reason for their low catch.
The nets are ripped to shreds.
If we can't keep them out of their beds with fish, we'll keep them out of their beds with something else.
(Laughs) They should have caught enough to fill 80 boxes, but only have enough fish for 30.
It's unusual for us to tear a net.
It's the first time it's been torn for - For months, eh? - 0h, aye.
For months.
But there's one member of the crew who is happy they didn't hit the Jackpot.
To the west of Ryanwood, Jimmy on board Amity is waking his crew.
Wakey, wakey! Skipper's babes, come away.
Come away, the skipper's babes.
I always get a smile from my crew on going-home day.
Come away, boys! Get the fish down.
I'm getting cold down here.
Two thirds of Amity's catch is fish which Kevin prepares for market.
It's window dressing to show off the fish at their best.
A buyer's gonna come along and if he sees a nice, bonny box of fish like that, he'd rather buy that than a box that's not done properly.
We're in the money We're in the money Before the crew make a wage, the boat's running expenses must be paid.
You wouldn't believe what it would cost to run a vessel like this for a year.
To paint her, seven grand.
Set of warps, which we need two every year.
£3,000, £4,000.
That's eight grand.
Sweeps.
Nets.
5,000 per net with all the attachments.
The list goes on and on.
It's not Just the fishing gear that costs money.
Amity's engine burns 100 litres of fuel an hour, and with escalating fuel costs, Jimmy's bill gets bigger every year.
Last year, probably, my fuel bill was £90,000.
This year, I would expect it to be in excess of 150, £160,000.
With such huge costs to pay, Jimmy steams to Peterhead hoping for a high price for his catch.
Pair trawler Ryanwood is still fishing in Norwegian waters.
They've finally got a big haul and everyone's delighted that they're beginning to make a wage.
Except Ryan.
Word soon reaches skipper Kevin about his rookie's complaints.
- You're sick of seeing fish? - Eh? You're sick of seeing fish? All that massive, massive fish.
You're sick of seeing 'em? - 0h, the big cod.
- Yeah You can never be sick of seeing big cod.
It's a good sign if the cod's too big to stick in the hopper.
It's the first time somebody's come up to the wheel and complained to the skipper because the cod's too big.
Martin! I've just had a complaint from the young lad.
- 0ch aye? - Ryan.
(Kevin) The cod The cod's too big.
I think it's more the fact that lifting the cod's the problem, I don't think it's the sight of them.
It's the lifting of them is the problem.
I think he, er I think he thinks manual labour's a Spaniard.
That young boy cracks me up.
When I hired Ryan at the start of the week, I did say he's got a good attitude.
But I think Ryan himself has just realised that he doesn't like he doesn't like the job.
By next morning, Jimmy is only five miles from Peterhead.
Kevin's first Job is to clean the decks after ten days of fishing.
(Hums) A working man's a happy man.
I'm nearly home.
I can see land.
Ah, by God, does it look good.
To the Buchan coast.
And this is what it's like most of the time.
Dull, grey.
But it's still home.
But I tell you, when the sun shines here, it's a nice place.
It's been ten days since Amity left harbour, setting sail in search of a good catch.
She's come through some of the worst storms of the winter and is now heading into her home port of Peterhead.
Jimmy must get a good price for his catch, but he's cutting it fine as the daily fish market has already started.
85.
90.
The market won't wait for Jimmy and the buyers are spending their money at a fearsome rate.
(All shouting) As Jimmy reaches the quay, the auctioneers are closing the final sales of the day.
Five.
£80.
Because the prices are good, the sale is moving briskly.
So we've only got about 15 minutes to get this onto the market and prepare it for sale.
£300.
£300.
The pressure's on, as you can see.
The market boys are right on our heels.
140's afore.
87 mine.
0nly one.
Well, if we waited till tomorrow, our fish would be another day older, and you get a lesser price for it.
The fresher the fish the more price you get for it.
Some lovely fresh lemon sole here.
That's going to make good money today.
See the buyers all hanging around.
And if you see them with long faces, as though they're at a funeral, it's a good sign because they're having to pay good money.
Prime fish.
I hope we get a good price for this.
Look at that.
Look at that.
That's what you call satisfaction.
Look at that.
I can hardly lift it.
Lovely, lovely monkfish.
With the fish landed, Kevin unloads the precious catch of prawns.
People eating these haven't got a clue the work that goes into these.
It's just unbelievable.
Looking at them there now, they look beautiful.
Look at that.
Prime stuff.
Jimmy sells his prawns direct to buyer Ashley Macdonald, who exports them all over Europe.
What we're looking for in the quality is to be properly washed.
Here, if they're not properly washed, they'll be dirty in there and that will deteriorate them, and then this will slacken off.
The customer in France or Italy or Spain, he demands this.
With the claws still on, it's beautiful on a plate.
Two or three of them and you'll pay a lot of money for it.
Jimmy gets £15,000 for 170 boxes of prawns.
Now his agent Alan Mitchell must get a good price for his fish.
Five.
100.
Five, ten, Anybody? £80.
Looks like there was a price war between the two buyers.
They're trying to outbid one another, which is good for me.
Alan squeezes every penny out of the buyers.
125 for the pair.
So now I'm just waiting for the salesmen to make up my tally sheet here, and this is this is the exciting piece.
When they sit and do their sums.
The whitings were £46.
The haddocks were £50.
The cod was £70.
The monk? The monk.
120.
£760.
All the fish has sold for £6,000.
Added to the money from the prawns, Jimmy has netted £21,000 from the trip.
(Laughs) That's good money.
Really good money, so absolutely delighted with that.
When the boat's expenses have been paid, each member of the crew will get £900 for their ten-day trip.
That's what all the hard work was for.
I hope I hope somebody enjoys them.
And so the fish is sent off on the last leg of its Journey.
Jimmy's monkfish Once you go in there, there ain't no return.
lands in the kitchen of a top London restaurant, where owner and chef, Aldo Zilli, creates the special of the day.
Here we go.
So this is that lovely monkfish we bought this morning.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna slice it this way.
So what I've got here is I'm gonna wrap this monkfish in some Parma ham slices, cloves of garlic, and some sage.
So this fish now is gonna go in my oven for about ten minutes.
Then someone lucky is going to have my fish.
Jimmy's cod Look at that lovely, big fish.
arrives in the world's most famous department store.
This one comes from Peterhead.
So it's going to go there to get as many attention as we can.
And the cod also ends up back in the North Sea in the middle of London.
Can I have cod and chips, please? - Salt and vinegar on them? - Here you go, Molly.
Jimmy's prize halibut Beautiful fish.
becomes fish steaks on a fishmonger's slab.
Whitefish.
I've got white halibut, which is good.
And I've got some - Where is it? - The big one.
- Where has it come from? - Scotland, Peterhead.
Scotland.
Where in Scotland? There is no sea in Scotland, there are only mountains.
(Laughs) And as for the star of Jimmy's catch Look at that.
Just absolutely crackers.
His prawns cross the channel to Brussels to the World Fish Fair to do battle with the big boys.
I'm here with my small platter of langoustines and look at this.
I'll just let you see what I'm trying to compete with.
That's an absolute showpiece.
Jimmy's hopped a flight from Aberdeen to introduce his prawns to international buyers.
He's come up with a new marketing plan and aims to rebrand his prawns as exclusive Scottish langoustine.
I think that we've got to come here and try and promote what we have.
Because I don't think they're going to come to Peterhead to find me.
0h, this is the China stand here.
Scottish langoustine? I think they like it.
Very good.
Go down past Russia.
Ukraine.
- Would you like to try a langoustine? - No, thank you.
No.
No takers.
They don't have langoustine but they've got some beautiful women.
Jimmy might not have got a lot of orders for his langoustine but he's sparked a lot of interest.
He's also discovered a local Michelin-starred restaurant which buys Amity's prawns, and the temptation is Just too strong to resist.
I'm feeling quite privileged tonight, sitting eating my own langoustine.
It will be good to be able to go back to the crew and say, "Boys, I've seen it.
I've eaten it.
"And it's good.
" Back in the North Sea, home of the Scottish langoustine, Kevin, the skipper of Ryanwood, has been catching very little.
He's heard that the prices are good at market, and decides to cut his losses and head home.
That will be seven fishing days and And, er or six fishing days, I forget.
And, er I just think that's long enough now.
I would rather go inland and, er, come back out again.
I shot a man in Reno Just to watch him die The crew only have one day with their wives and girlfriends before they go back out to sea.
Be all nice and clean for getting into the harbour.
Because we don't want people people thinking we're smelly people.
That looks damn good.
What a good-looking guy.
For Kevin, this has been a short trip, but for Ryan it's seemed like a lifetime.
After seven days' fishing, Kevin has only 700 boxes between the two boats.
It's a poor trip as they usually land 1,500 boxes.
£65.
£65.
It's now up to fish agent Alan Mitchell to get the skippers a good price.
I think the cod's gone for £100 a box, I think.
(Shouting) 106 for small whiting.
Big, big, big prices.
Small haddock's high.
£120.
In the height of summer that could be down to £50.
I didn't think we'd get prices like that today.
Kevin's hunch was a good one - the market is still returning good prices.
The two boats make £60,000 between them.
But there's no time to celebrate, Kevin wants to get out to sea as soon as possible.
The voyage commences again.
(Laughs) Kevin's going straight back out again.
I'm not going.
No chance.
He must be mad.
Crazy.
The next morning, Ryan goes down to the boat to collect his gear.
He won't be Joining the Ryanwood on their next trip.
At least I've tried it.
Tried everything.
Doesn't just seem to be working for me.
(Sniffs) Ah.
Something will come right one of these days.
Ryan might have decided that fishing is not for him, but for skipper Jimmy it's business as usual.
There's no shops out in the North Sea.
If we don't get it right here we ain't coming back for more.
Better to have more than not enough.
That's us away out again to start another trip.
Way out to catch some big prawns to keep lots of people happy.
So it's goodbye, Peterhead, hello, the North Sea for the next ten days.
See you, boys.
Skipper Jimmy considers a career change.
I think I should have been a farmer this week.
And Kevin's fed up with not catching enough fish.
This is our emergency plan.
These are the men who do the most dangerous Job in Britain.
180 miles from Scotland, trawlers Ryanwood and Castlewood are fishing in Norwegian waters.
Last year they caught fish worth more then £2 million, making them the most successful pair trawlers in the UK.
Ryanwood skipper Kevin West has 25 years of experience at sea, but 17-year-old Ryan is only four days into the Job.
He's got a golden opportunity to secure a berth on the richest boat in the fleet.
But suffering from seasickness, Ryan's barely been able to work and has yet to impress Kevin.
I just - I just let him know what what was expected of him.
And I think he's turned the corner.
And he seems to be happier.
Maybe.
Being a trawlerman is a tough, physically demanding Job, where only the strong survive.
Ryan will have to prove himself by doing everything, from helping to bring in the haul to cleaning the skipper's windows.
It's the young boy's job to, er keep the windows nice and clean so we can see everything.
He's made the windows worse.
They look dirtier now than they were before he started cleaning them.
Have to give him a lesson in how to wash windows correctly.
But Kevin's got more to worry about than Ryan.
Halfway through the trip, he's not catching enough fish.
A poor start.
20 boxes is no use for two boats.
The pressure starts now.
The fun's over now.
In the hope of a big haul, Kevin and the skipper on Castlewood cast their net again, and stretch it over half a mile between them.
If they don't find some fish soon, it will be a poor payday for the crew.
So far, first mate Martin in charge of the fish room has only filled 300 of their 700 boxes.
Still a long way to go.
A long way to go.
We've still got to fill all these.
You see them here.
All these.
To be quite honest, the way I'm fishing as skipper this week I suppose he couldn't do a worse job, so maybe it's just decided he's going to take over.
Ryan, this is the emergency plan.
(Ryan laughs) This is our emergency plan when things don't don't go well.
I think we'll maybe have to take the rods out.
If we don't take fish this haul, Ryan, you'll be standing on the stern of the ship with a rod.
100 miles away, skipper Jimmy Buchan and his crew are aboard the trawler Amity.
They're fishing for prawns at the Devil's Hole.
And after nine days at sea, Jimmy has finally hit the Jackpot.
Look at this one.
An absolute beauty.
These are the fellas we're after.
Nice.
Beautiful.
But their trip hasn't been easy.
They've survived force 10 gales, suffered a near capsize, ripped both nets and travelled over 400 miles in their hunt for prawns.
But Just when their luck has changed, disaster strikes.
Their nets are in the water and the hydraulics have broken.
They can't get the nets back on board.
Bit worried, to be quite honest.
It appears I've got a hydraulic pump going down.
And, er Won't really know until we've finally taken the full weight of the gear up off the sea bed.
Yeah, the hydraulics are making very heavy noises right now.
I just hope we'll get this net hauled before the pump goes on us.
If we don't, we might have to drop our gear cos we wouldn't be able to get it aboard.
The nets are worth £30,000.
If they have to leave them on the bottom of the sea, Jimmy and his crew will be seriously out of pocket.
Stone in this side.
Another stone.
We've got a hydraulic pump down.
And that's the side the stone's on, so it couldn't it couldn't be worse.
So we're struggling to get the net on board this side.
It's just nightmare after nightmare since we came away.
Using a line from another pulley, Kevin is finally able to bring the net up to the back of the boat.
But it's not the catch they were hoping for.
- All right to go ahead? - Aye.
That's how we lose gear.
We're lucky we got her up because we got We managed to take this rope off the net, and we got it onto the middle winch.
If we couldn't do that, we wouldn't have the power to heave her.
Simple as that.
I've had enough now.
I want to go home.
(Laughs) Think I should have been a farmer this week.
Planted some sweet potatoes, some carrots, nice cabbage.
In the ten years that I've been trawling for prawns, I've never seen the mud so bad.
From the mud emerges the pink gold that Jimmy's been looking for.
These are some of the biggest and most prized cold-water prawns in the world, and they'll go on to grace plates in restaurants throughout Europe.
Beautiful prawns.
This is as good as you'll find, these prawns.
Look at that for quality.
Look at that.
Absolutely crackers.
The size of them.
They're gorgeous, aren't they? These are the best prawns I've seen aboard this boat.
As Kevin fills the fish room with prawns, Jimmy is in the engine room inspecting the hydraulics.
He's been trying to keep them going long enough to finish the trip, but it seems that his efforts have been in vain.
It looks like I'm going to have to go back to port.
We were battling against all the elements, and it was starting to turn good and now this happens.
I'm really disappointed.
I think once the rest of the crew find out, they'll be absolutely fuming.
Unable to continue fishing, Jimmy breaks the bad news to the others.
Well, boys, I suppose you've kind of guessed it's bad news with the hydraulics.
Ah, we haven't had too much luck down there, have we? No.
There's just too much mud.
Stones.
I think we're very lucky we didn't lose some gear today.
We were lucky to get it all back.
So I'll just have to sing a song and be happy.
Reluctantly, Jimmy sets course for his home port of Peterhead, 100 miles away, leaving the good fishing grounds behind him.
90 miles to the east, skipper Kevin on Ryanwood is desperate for a good catch.
His fish hold is only half full and the number of days the government allows him to fish at sea are running out.
He's bringing in the net, which weighs the equivalent of a double-decker bus, stretching the ropes to breaking point.
Martin knows what can happen when warps are pushed to the limits.
With the weight of the net, sometimes they could break.
It will either hit me or you.
If it hit you, oh, you wouldn't know about it.
Suddenly the wire shudders to a stop.
(Clanging) (Cries of effort) Half a mile of steel cable, an inch thick, has twisted so badly that they can't get the fish on board.
The last thing you want to do when you're heaving up is, er is you have to stop the boat, take the strain off the net.
Because whenever you take the strain off the net, everything goes slack, and the fish can escape, so it is quite frustrating when something like that happens.
- Heave it up - (Clanging) Bloody hell.
Losing fish is the least of Kevin's worries.
His priority is the safety of his crew, starting with rookie Ryan.
Trawlermen are 30 times more likely to die doing their Job than the average worker.
Cameron the cook understands the dangers of the current situation all too well.
We were standing in the quarter, in the boat, taking the twists out of the sweeps, and I got washed overboard.
Neville, will you keep your feet clear? Just keep your feet clear.
I was kind of unconscious, so I couldn't actually describe what it felt like in the water.
I just remember being face down in the water.
It was a nasty experience for for ten minutes.
If the wire all on the side just now was to break, they could be dragged over the side.
It stopped me going to sea for about two weeks.
That's it.
Back again.
(Laughs) Glutton for punishment.
That's it.
Clear now, yeah.
With the cable clear, they bring in the few fish that remain in the net.
There's another reason for their low catch.
The nets are ripped to shreds.
If we can't keep them out of their beds with fish, we'll keep them out of their beds with something else.
(Laughs) They should have caught enough to fill 80 boxes, but only have enough fish for 30.
It's unusual for us to tear a net.
It's the first time it's been torn for - For months, eh? - 0h, aye.
For months.
But there's one member of the crew who is happy they didn't hit the Jackpot.
To the west of Ryanwood, Jimmy on board Amity is waking his crew.
Wakey, wakey! Skipper's babes, come away.
Come away, the skipper's babes.
I always get a smile from my crew on going-home day.
Come away, boys! Get the fish down.
I'm getting cold down here.
Two thirds of Amity's catch is fish which Kevin prepares for market.
It's window dressing to show off the fish at their best.
A buyer's gonna come along and if he sees a nice, bonny box of fish like that, he'd rather buy that than a box that's not done properly.
We're in the money We're in the money Before the crew make a wage, the boat's running expenses must be paid.
You wouldn't believe what it would cost to run a vessel like this for a year.
To paint her, seven grand.
Set of warps, which we need two every year.
£3,000, £4,000.
That's eight grand.
Sweeps.
Nets.
5,000 per net with all the attachments.
The list goes on and on.
It's not Just the fishing gear that costs money.
Amity's engine burns 100 litres of fuel an hour, and with escalating fuel costs, Jimmy's bill gets bigger every year.
Last year, probably, my fuel bill was £90,000.
This year, I would expect it to be in excess of 150, £160,000.
With such huge costs to pay, Jimmy steams to Peterhead hoping for a high price for his catch.
Pair trawler Ryanwood is still fishing in Norwegian waters.
They've finally got a big haul and everyone's delighted that they're beginning to make a wage.
Except Ryan.
Word soon reaches skipper Kevin about his rookie's complaints.
- You're sick of seeing fish? - Eh? You're sick of seeing fish? All that massive, massive fish.
You're sick of seeing 'em? - 0h, the big cod.
- Yeah You can never be sick of seeing big cod.
It's a good sign if the cod's too big to stick in the hopper.
It's the first time somebody's come up to the wheel and complained to the skipper because the cod's too big.
Martin! I've just had a complaint from the young lad.
- 0ch aye? - Ryan.
(Kevin) The cod The cod's too big.
I think it's more the fact that lifting the cod's the problem, I don't think it's the sight of them.
It's the lifting of them is the problem.
I think he, er I think he thinks manual labour's a Spaniard.
That young boy cracks me up.
When I hired Ryan at the start of the week, I did say he's got a good attitude.
But I think Ryan himself has just realised that he doesn't like he doesn't like the job.
By next morning, Jimmy is only five miles from Peterhead.
Kevin's first Job is to clean the decks after ten days of fishing.
(Hums) A working man's a happy man.
I'm nearly home.
I can see land.
Ah, by God, does it look good.
To the Buchan coast.
And this is what it's like most of the time.
Dull, grey.
But it's still home.
But I tell you, when the sun shines here, it's a nice place.
It's been ten days since Amity left harbour, setting sail in search of a good catch.
She's come through some of the worst storms of the winter and is now heading into her home port of Peterhead.
Jimmy must get a good price for his catch, but he's cutting it fine as the daily fish market has already started.
85.
90.
The market won't wait for Jimmy and the buyers are spending their money at a fearsome rate.
(All shouting) As Jimmy reaches the quay, the auctioneers are closing the final sales of the day.
Five.
£80.
Because the prices are good, the sale is moving briskly.
So we've only got about 15 minutes to get this onto the market and prepare it for sale.
£300.
£300.
The pressure's on, as you can see.
The market boys are right on our heels.
140's afore.
87 mine.
0nly one.
Well, if we waited till tomorrow, our fish would be another day older, and you get a lesser price for it.
The fresher the fish the more price you get for it.
Some lovely fresh lemon sole here.
That's going to make good money today.
See the buyers all hanging around.
And if you see them with long faces, as though they're at a funeral, it's a good sign because they're having to pay good money.
Prime fish.
I hope we get a good price for this.
Look at that.
Look at that.
That's what you call satisfaction.
Look at that.
I can hardly lift it.
Lovely, lovely monkfish.
With the fish landed, Kevin unloads the precious catch of prawns.
People eating these haven't got a clue the work that goes into these.
It's just unbelievable.
Looking at them there now, they look beautiful.
Look at that.
Prime stuff.
Jimmy sells his prawns direct to buyer Ashley Macdonald, who exports them all over Europe.
What we're looking for in the quality is to be properly washed.
Here, if they're not properly washed, they'll be dirty in there and that will deteriorate them, and then this will slacken off.
The customer in France or Italy or Spain, he demands this.
With the claws still on, it's beautiful on a plate.
Two or three of them and you'll pay a lot of money for it.
Jimmy gets £15,000 for 170 boxes of prawns.
Now his agent Alan Mitchell must get a good price for his fish.
Five.
100.
Five, ten, Anybody? £80.
Looks like there was a price war between the two buyers.
They're trying to outbid one another, which is good for me.
Alan squeezes every penny out of the buyers.
125 for the pair.
So now I'm just waiting for the salesmen to make up my tally sheet here, and this is this is the exciting piece.
When they sit and do their sums.
The whitings were £46.
The haddocks were £50.
The cod was £70.
The monk? The monk.
120.
£760.
All the fish has sold for £6,000.
Added to the money from the prawns, Jimmy has netted £21,000 from the trip.
(Laughs) That's good money.
Really good money, so absolutely delighted with that.
When the boat's expenses have been paid, each member of the crew will get £900 for their ten-day trip.
That's what all the hard work was for.
I hope I hope somebody enjoys them.
And so the fish is sent off on the last leg of its Journey.
Jimmy's monkfish Once you go in there, there ain't no return.
lands in the kitchen of a top London restaurant, where owner and chef, Aldo Zilli, creates the special of the day.
Here we go.
So this is that lovely monkfish we bought this morning.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna slice it this way.
So what I've got here is I'm gonna wrap this monkfish in some Parma ham slices, cloves of garlic, and some sage.
So this fish now is gonna go in my oven for about ten minutes.
Then someone lucky is going to have my fish.
Jimmy's cod Look at that lovely, big fish.
arrives in the world's most famous department store.
This one comes from Peterhead.
So it's going to go there to get as many attention as we can.
And the cod also ends up back in the North Sea in the middle of London.
Can I have cod and chips, please? - Salt and vinegar on them? - Here you go, Molly.
Jimmy's prize halibut Beautiful fish.
becomes fish steaks on a fishmonger's slab.
Whitefish.
I've got white halibut, which is good.
And I've got some - Where is it? - The big one.
- Where has it come from? - Scotland, Peterhead.
Scotland.
Where in Scotland? There is no sea in Scotland, there are only mountains.
(Laughs) And as for the star of Jimmy's catch Look at that.
Just absolutely crackers.
His prawns cross the channel to Brussels to the World Fish Fair to do battle with the big boys.
I'm here with my small platter of langoustines and look at this.
I'll just let you see what I'm trying to compete with.
That's an absolute showpiece.
Jimmy's hopped a flight from Aberdeen to introduce his prawns to international buyers.
He's come up with a new marketing plan and aims to rebrand his prawns as exclusive Scottish langoustine.
I think that we've got to come here and try and promote what we have.
Because I don't think they're going to come to Peterhead to find me.
0h, this is the China stand here.
Scottish langoustine? I think they like it.
Very good.
Go down past Russia.
Ukraine.
- Would you like to try a langoustine? - No, thank you.
No.
No takers.
They don't have langoustine but they've got some beautiful women.
Jimmy might not have got a lot of orders for his langoustine but he's sparked a lot of interest.
He's also discovered a local Michelin-starred restaurant which buys Amity's prawns, and the temptation is Just too strong to resist.
I'm feeling quite privileged tonight, sitting eating my own langoustine.
It will be good to be able to go back to the crew and say, "Boys, I've seen it.
I've eaten it.
"And it's good.
" Back in the North Sea, home of the Scottish langoustine, Kevin, the skipper of Ryanwood, has been catching very little.
He's heard that the prices are good at market, and decides to cut his losses and head home.
That will be seven fishing days and And, er or six fishing days, I forget.
And, er I just think that's long enough now.
I would rather go inland and, er, come back out again.
I shot a man in Reno Just to watch him die The crew only have one day with their wives and girlfriends before they go back out to sea.
Be all nice and clean for getting into the harbour.
Because we don't want people people thinking we're smelly people.
That looks damn good.
What a good-looking guy.
For Kevin, this has been a short trip, but for Ryan it's seemed like a lifetime.
After seven days' fishing, Kevin has only 700 boxes between the two boats.
It's a poor trip as they usually land 1,500 boxes.
£65.
£65.
It's now up to fish agent Alan Mitchell to get the skippers a good price.
I think the cod's gone for £100 a box, I think.
(Shouting) 106 for small whiting.
Big, big, big prices.
Small haddock's high.
£120.
In the height of summer that could be down to £50.
I didn't think we'd get prices like that today.
Kevin's hunch was a good one - the market is still returning good prices.
The two boats make £60,000 between them.
But there's no time to celebrate, Kevin wants to get out to sea as soon as possible.
The voyage commences again.
(Laughs) Kevin's going straight back out again.
I'm not going.
No chance.
He must be mad.
Crazy.
The next morning, Ryan goes down to the boat to collect his gear.
He won't be Joining the Ryanwood on their next trip.
At least I've tried it.
Tried everything.
Doesn't just seem to be working for me.
(Sniffs) Ah.
Something will come right one of these days.
Ryan might have decided that fishing is not for him, but for skipper Jimmy it's business as usual.
There's no shops out in the North Sea.
If we don't get it right here we ain't coming back for more.
Better to have more than not enough.
That's us away out again to start another trip.
Way out to catch some big prawns to keep lots of people happy.
So it's goodbye, Peterhead, hello, the North Sea for the next ten days.
See you, boys.