trawlermen

It's a simple story of six trawlermen embarking from Brixham on one last voyage, told in a poor theatre style but with so much imagination that you start to think that you can smell the sea.

This week's new theatre 2011

He'd imagined that the complexity of fisheries legislation might make a campaigning programme about fish quite difficult compared, say, to his battery chicken protest, but talking to the trawlermen and realising that although they were legally obliged to throw fish away they knew every day it was "very, very wrong" he saw immediately the battle cry.

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 Best Food Personality: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 2011

It's a simple story of six trawlermen embarking from Brixham on one last voyage, told in a poor theatre style but with so much imagination that you start to think that you can smell the sea.

This week's new theatre 2011

Six trawlermen from Shetland face unlimited fines and multi-million pound confiscation orders for illegally landing £15m worth of herring and mackerel to cheat strict quotas designed to conserve fish stocks.

Shetland trawlermen illegally caught £15m worth of herring and mackerel 2010

Furthermore (and apropos Max's "the navy needs more small, cheap-and-cheerful frigates"), one could be mischievous and suggest that come the day when a British government finally comes to its senses and quits the EU's Common Fisheries Policy we may indeed require plenty of 'cheap-and-cheerful' craft in order to reassert control over our territorial waters, lest any French or Spanish trawlermen fancy their chances.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

One of the trawlermen said: "How did that stuff get into a torpedo-tube?"

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

Necessity often breeds invention on the Fringe, and Bear Trap theatre's story about Brixham trawlermen battling recession, their own demons and the cruel sea is a fine example of what you can conjure with a table, a few chairs and some yellow wellington boots.

Bound 2010

After the exhibition, I stopped by at a branch of Nauticalia, the mail-order company that has a chain of stores specialising in replica binnacles, ship's wheels and hurricane lamps, as well as pennants, guernseys and sou'westers: many homes in Britain must look like the bridge of a spanking new 1950s trawler, with inhabitants dressed as spanking new 1950s trawlermen.

First toys, then models and now works of art 2010

That is why the precise mesh size of fishing nets is minutely specified by government decree, and that is why gunboats patrol the seas in pursuit of dissenting trawlermen.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

That is why the precise mesh size of fishing nets is minutely specified by government decree, and that is why gunboats patrol the seas in pursuit of dissenting trawlermen.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009