One of the most advance fishing vessels working the English Channel and North Sea. The Urk based Lub Senior or UK153 has been designed to use twin-rigging, passive gillnetting, pulse trawl and fly-shooting, all designed to catch different demersal but also pelagic fish species in various seasons. Fly-shooting is a more fuel-efficient method than bottom trawling and usually yields a better quality of end product due to the short time that the fish are in the net before being taken aboard the boat
The boat os owned by the Orion Fishing Group, renowned for landing fish of the highest quality. This video made by the boat gives a good insight into how the seine net method of fishing works - the footrope just flies over the stern ramp when she is shooting the net! Down in the fishroom gutted and washed fish are weighed electronically (recorded on computer) iced and with the boxes stacked 12 high there is still with room to spare to the deckhead!
