Deep Sea Fishing
The daily fish auction would normally start at 8.00am. The fish would be sold, processed and dispatched by rail all over the country. As many as twenty trawlers a day arrived to be unloaded.
A good pay packet would be determined by the price of the fish at the market on the day. If the market was good the pay could be good, if not many could go home with very little.
At about noon the fishermen would go to the company office to receive their 'Settling', a sheet listing their earnings and deductions and final pay. A Settling Sheet would also be put together showing the size of the trawler's catch and the type of fish caught.
By the 1940's and 50's many trawler companies were landing over a million boxes of fish per year. In the 1960's a trawler's landings for the year could be worth over £100,000.