Phil is the skipper of a large gill netter called the Govenek of Ladram. He runs a tight ship, wanting his crew to work hard and eat together as a team. He needs to bring in some new blood and train them up before his most experienced deckhands move to an easier boat or retire. Louis is 21 and on the dole and in the past has found it hard to feel part of a group and make friends. He takes part in a deckie training course, hoping that he can find a career and also a crew who will accept him as part of their own.
The Our Miranda, skippered by Matt, is one of Devon's biggest earning boats but not every boat is so lucky and The Van Dijck, a scallop trawler run by skipper Andrew 'Drew' McLeod has definitely seen better days. New scallop quotas mean that Drew can only fish 10 days a month and with his earnings restricted, his boat in disrepair and no spare funds for refurbishments, he only has a few months to try and turn things around.
The Govenek competes with foreign boats for fish, and it doesn't look like plain sailing.
The Van Dijck's crew are abandoning ship, the boat's in disrepair and a storm's brewing
The Govenek of Ladram is behind schedule. The crew fish all night, but how much they'll earn depends on how well skipper Phil can read the seas and reaching market before rival boats.
The new series continues. This episode visits north-east Scotland, where hauls are rumoured to be the biggest for decades, attracting deckhands from England.