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Tuesday 26 February 2013
Dutch and German freezer trawlers
Two big Dutch and one German freezer trawler can be seen fishing south of Mount's Bay in the last twenty four hours. Twenty years ago a big fleet of English and Dutch freezer trawlers fished the huge shoals of mackerel in the Western Approaches. Since then, climactic change has seen the mackerel move further and further northwards until now they are largely concentrated around Scotland and well into Iceland's 200 mile limit.