And, that guy, prossesses... Fish, like That!!! I've Delivered to a tender like that, trying to feed the world, and survive is a diificult job, and employs people who need work, too.
I was as marine cadet on board of Harmonia in 1989, this ship already as scrap, fucking 31 yo.)) The factory also so old, manual labour at sea, zero level of automatic machines. Contract is 10 month, it is really hard for ladies to survive at 12 hours shifts. People getting crazy on board for very small money, just $800 a month.
IVE BEEN A FISHERMAN FOR 30 YEARS.....HONORABLE MEN CATCH FISH ONE AT A TIME........ONCE AGAIN GREED FU7777KED IT UP FOR EVERYONE.......TRAWLERS NEED TOBE SMALL....FACTORY TRAWLERS ARE RAPISTS OF THE SEA......
To bill.yes I actually catch one fish at a time ..I've been a loneliness for 29 years in a row we bait each hook one at a time...they go out the back of the boat into the water one at atime....oh wait I forgot about snarls...lol. I guess sometimes the hooks go out or come back more than one at a time.....not on purpose...generally...
I have to admire the determination of Russian leadership to make sure the populace got fed. Profits weren't the main factor, the populace was to keep the country moving. There is no perfect system that makes everyone happy.
And they are great engineers they make strong shit The Soviet machines are still fascinating me i dont care who made anything but i love machinery and Russian make strong shit till today they do
Boats that are Maine to Rhode Island follow fish some hold 1 million pounds 25 truck loads and they leave about 24 hours back full 24 hours unload go again used to be sardines now wasted lobster bait . Cuttings from factory used to be bait now fresh herring
As in most documentaries, if they left out the fake drama, random video clips that have nothing to do with the documentary, and of course the stupid music, this could have been a very informative, entertaining video.
I worked on a US ship that is very much like this one, and you are correct. The drama is complete B.S. and there is no music to narrate the mood on board, so this has a very fabricated feeling to it. Real life on one of these ships is much more interesting!
16 hours a day with short breaks, not much moving while working, your muscles will sore, your back will cry in pain, your body have to endure this pain for months. But you will only endure 1,5-2. And you eventually give up, because you will realize its not worth it.
True buddy, for the amount of hours you expect more when you get back, just to realize you made minimum wage in 3 months for what could’ve been a year. 20,000 if your lucky enough is great for 3 months, 6,000 for 3 months is bullshit.
Big boats come in nb. Can. Some 200 truck loads of like fish sticks or filets for burger King. Alot goes to Gorton's in mass. Ike 30 trucks a day for 2 weeks . Then ga. And Florida 50 pound blocks ground up leftovers for fish sticks . Most hauled in USA
We got one of these filthy hulks detained in Prince Rupert for poaching in and amongst the Queen Charlotte Islands. There is a massive fine levied against the ship owners.
i fish every week , and if i am lucky will take fish home once a month, most of the fish is regulated so 95% of the fish i catch goes back in the ocean they take 500 ton a day
They should be banned. A lot of them go to Africa & local fishermen who catch very very basically & now get only tiddlers meaning no future fish stocks. And the factory boats go & rape elsewhere. My supermarkets sell fish at lowish prices. EU please ban them from European waters, a lot are Russian.
This sort of thing has to stop. before there is no fish left in the seas then we can be really proud of ourselves and you can make a documentary entitled ;The empty seas'
@@richardyork9495 if the ecosystem in the ocean collapses so will the ecosystem on the land. The ocean is responsible for 70% of the oxygen we breathe. Also 500 tons a day is just one ship.. there are roughly 4.6 million of these ships in use today. No hatchery could keep up with those numbers. I don’t say all of this to be spiteful , just good food for thought my friend 👍🏻
In the UK you could fish for mackerel from boat or shore and catch that many you would go home after an hour. That was 40 years ago. Now you go targeting mackerel shoals and will be lucky to have 10 or even 2 in 3 hours. These massive ships are the reason. They can also catch fish that are not in their quota but then return then back dead. Massive Bass for one. There are very few bass being caught by anglers now because the stocks have been dragged up and thrown away.
This is crazy isn’t it? Salmon used to be great, cod was great, now it’s hit or miss due to these boats and I might have been apart of that problem. I worked on a vessel in the engine room for 10 years and every year it either got better or worse. Except for about 4-5ish years ago it definitely sucked
@@TroubleinVermont 2021-22 was the first time in Bering sea crabbing history that red and blue king crab was shut down indefinitely for the long haul.. the amount of fish and animals these commercial trawlers and fishing boats haul is staggering and mind boggling.. I love deadliest catch and the entire fleet but I’m by no means a regular “crab consumer” and never will be.. and I could definitely live well without it if it meant saving a species of animal in our oceans.. others have different opinions tho obviously
We live on the Chesapeake bay. Last couple years when we went out crabbing, we would only catch about 20 in a few hours. Not enough for a family feast.
Yea yea 2 compartments can be flooded but the ship will not sink, in theory yes, but you think the crew would close the many water heavy proof doors about about 8 door over and over all day. Nope it will all remain open, that the real reality. HaHa
Sometime in February/March 1990, in the same area, I served aboard as chief officer on a ship supplying fuel to these ships. It was quite an experience. Hard work, no sleep for three days. The job, if I remember it right took at least a week.
@@MultiChallenge most of these fishing jobs work you to death especially processing and stevadoring. I used to unload for American seafoods and you’d work 24 sleep for 3 and then finish the 36 hour operation.
If you like this video and are interested in massive factory ships like this, then I would highly suggest you read Martin Cruz Smith's novel "Polar Star," which is the sequel to Gorky Park. He did a lot of on-ship research and made the novel very realistic, according to the various ship captains he worked with for the book.
@@davidweston6653 I'm now working through Martin Cruz Smith's "Red Square," which is the sequel to Polar Star. I bought his first 8 books from ThriftBooks and his most recent from Amazon, so I have all nine and am enjoying each one. I always wondered why they never adapted more of Smith's work than Gorky Park into films until I read the novel for Gorky Park. The film was good, but if they had followed the novel it would have been spectacular! They completely screwed the ability to go further in the franchise because of the film's ending, and they gutted a lot of the intrigue along the journey there. I understand the need to compress a storyline to fit a two-hour format, but DAMN! If I had the pull in Hollywood, I would turn the entire Arkady Renko library into a multi-part series -- "Renko" -- that gave as many episodes as necessary to each novel and told THOSE stories on film EXACTLY as Martin Cruz Smith had in the novels. So maybe four one-hour episodes to Gorky Park, three to Polar Star, etc, and no forcing into a time format whatsoever. I wish more people knew how great those stories are. And I would use native actors who spoke the language, too. Just saying.
@Brisdad53 Not a challenge, just a genuine question so I can better understand the context of your claim: have you both read Polar Star and also worked on a Russian fish factory ship?
I don't 3at very much fish, and I won't get or eat fish products such as fish sticks, or the processed fish patties !! My girl friend worked on an American fish factory ship off of Alaska . She told me what they do with all the fish pieces , bones and all, how its put through a Hugh blender and made into a mushy , nasty looking mess, then its cooked and shaped into fish sticks, fillets, that they use in the fast food places for their fish sandwiches, and the fake crab products they sell !! It made me sick !! I think if people really knew what goes into our food, we might think before purchasing !! Just like chicken nuggets, they put all the parts of the chicken you wouldn't buy or eat !! Chicken butt, the feet, even their beaks !! It's no wonder humans have. Stomach problems and cancers, with all they do to our food !!
Lmfao it’s currently 1:33AM and I just randomly woke up to drink water and take a piss yet I’m here watching this video on a factory fishing vessel o_O
Rejoice the local multi generation fishermen can get a job onbaord working for a huge faceless corperation. Slave pay, appalling conditions and zero employment rights.
Not necessarily, most fishermen sell there fish to tenders which then sell to processors and then store on refer boats. They still overfish but game and fish do regulate what can and can’t be caught depending on spawning. At least in North America they do, in other countries I can’t speak on that.
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 true there isn’t any employee representation in the fishing industry. They do get treated unfairly and due to a lot of lax employment laws in Alaska a lot of them don’t get basic labor regulations. OSHA doesn’t even follow up on safety violations they just send letters. Not once when I was on one of these boats did I ever see anyone come and actually check anything.
McDonalds gets all the Polick Fish from up there, I watched a Documentary once that said there is enough Pollock in the Bering Sea to Fish The Pollock forever and never run out.
1 of them set outside Rhode Island and are herring boats catch fish eas over to ship they pump it on wire money they pick up net and start looking for fish don't even leave grounds saves time money boat was there long time
Is there any kind of corelation between the amount of corrosion on ships hulls and amount of money that is "distracted" so everybody seems to rconsider it as "is not really so bad, there is plenty or naval grade steel behind that"?
FACTORY FISH SHIP SHOULD BE OUTLAWED. FISH ARE GOD GIVEN FOOD FOR THE WORLD AND MUST BE SHARED. It should be ok to commercially fish in your own 12 legal sovereign nautical miles but not beyond. Absolutely not in the international waters. Over time fish are depleted and fishing is not possible unless you go far far away. Small and poor countries cannot afford such a lavish type of fishing due to overfishing & abused by others.
If you think humas could possibly deplete the fish population in the world's oceans you have no idea how massive they are. For scale every human on earth can fit inside the city of Jacksonville Florida
We done it in European waters, tho the fisherman didn't like it with boats being forcefully scrapped but it worked as stocks are much better. But these boats need banned worldwide.
So an obselete vessel, modernised , probably well beyond it's build specs, and running on the edge of viability? I see an 'Acident waiting to happen' , possibly with a bit of help. Should be re titled 'How to plan a Disaster'.
When the ship is due expensive repairs they'll probably have an "accident" sink the ship and claim the insurance money. Share price goes up who cares about the oil spill
What a more cost effective way to operate. It's nice to see that rather then throw an old ship away, they simply refurbished it & brought the technology up to speed in order to stay cost effective. An incredible solution to an enviable task!
So this ship must be one of the culprits responsible for melting of polar ice caps......Imagine the kilo-calories released when all those refrigeration and diesel power engines are running in arctic region.
Government needs to shut this kinda of commercial fishing down and fund more farm raise fisheries. Messing up the entire ecosystem especially the ones trolling by the reefs. Greedy!
