Ross James
23rd November 2001 Miguel was telling me a few days ago that sometimes the Greenland halibut fishing starts a bit earlier in the north, on the the ‘Nose’ of the Grand Banks in 3L (three lima). We steamed up here on the off-chance that he was right, but it turns out that the fishing up … Continue reading Day 37
16th November 2001 It's funny what becomes newsworthy out here. Today we met up with another trawler called the Solsticio. We lowered our small inflatable boat and the bosun went over to collect a parcel from it. Okay, not the most dramatic sequence of events I grant you, but something different to shooting the net, … Continue reading Day 30
11th November 2001 I’m still trying to work out the best way to get an accurate estimate of the catch size and composition. On the face of it you might think that you could weigh a box of fish, and multiply that weight by the number of boxes to know how much the total catch was. … Continue reading Day 25
9th November 2001 Finally the weather has broken! It's still not calm, but life has got back to more or less normal now. I got some sleep last night and had a shower today, so all in all I think I can say that I've weathered the storm. It's strange being at sea; it's as … Continue reading Day 23