2025-08-28
26 分钟See this boat here?
That was one of the local fishing boats, it used fish wheels.
Couldn't afford to do it,
he had to sell the licence and he just tied the boat up and that's how it's ended up over the years.
It's 7am on a warm August morning in the quiet coastal town of Fleetwood in the north-west of England.
This used to be one of the biggest ports here, Hull and Grinsby.
They're just all dying now, nothing.
John Worthington has been fishing here for 40 years.
It's everything he's ever known.
I've been fishing since about 15 years of age.
My grandfather and my dad did the salmon fishing and shrimping at Glasendock.
So it's been a family.
And I used to go shrimping when I was like eight years of age with my dad.
This used to be one of Britain's busiest fishing ports.
But over the decades, the industry here has declined.
Once upon a time, there would have been 90 fishing vessels in this harbour.
Now only two registered boats are left.
John's and his friend Greg's.
We don't want the smoke here,
so we use nets that's under a millimetre so all the small fish can get through.