Massive trawling effort west of Ireland.

The are around 80 large trawlers...

mainly from France, Ireland, Norway, Spain and the Faroes working the Porcupine Bank...

and a fleet of much larger pelagic boats working the deep water a few miles off the edge of the continental shelf...

including the largest trawler in the world, the infamous 144m Annelies Ilena...

while at the northern end of the `Porcupine the Irish research ship Celtic Explorer is heading west.