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Just appearing on the chart coming away from Newlyn in the early hours, the crabber Intuition heads back to her fishing ground off Land's End. The AIS clearly shows the ten strings of 95 pots she worked yesterday - right on the edge of the busy shipping lanes. The strings lay east-to-west, and as soon as a string is hauled the boat turns round and shoots them away again. Hauling is done 'head-to-wind', and into the face of the weather. Bigger crabbers can and do fish through weather that would have most boats heading for home.