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On England’s North East coast, where rivers, heavy industry and the sea have shaped lives for generations, fisherman Stan Rennie is watching the world he knows disappear. His family have worked these waters for generations. Then, almost overnight, thousands of dead crabs and lobsters wash ashore, and a community already living with uncertainty is pushed into crisis. Teesside filmmaker Jeanie Finlay brings warmth, wit and deep local feeling to this David-and-Goliath story of environmental damage, official evasions and working-class resilience. At its centre is Stan: funny, stubborn, vulnerable and increasingly determined to be heard.
Transcript
00:00.
00:13Sorry, .
00:21And as Billy started to go,
00:26She said keep your pretty head low
00:34All me life's just been about fishing
00:39From eight, nine year old going to see all my brother
00:42Salmoning, trawling, cocking
00:48Hiya, there's a rarity
00:53You're expecting to catch what you did all your life
00:55And when you can't
01:01On my mum's side you can trace our fishing back four or five hundred years
01:06And they're all fisher folk from just in front of where I live
01:10Fished from the beach
01:12My gran used to skein the mussels from my gran guy
01:16He was a fisherman from the fish shams at Harlepool
01:22How much do you think I'll get for the crubs?
01:25Maybe it's 70 or 80 quid
01:28How much was the diesel?
01:33Maybe 70 or 80 quid

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