Revell 05204 North Sea Trawler

Fishing in the North Sea was carried out since the Middle Ages, but it clearly intensified after 1945, along with the intensive development of fisheries in Western and Northern Europe. Undoubtedly, the countries that have taken part and are still taking part in intensive fishing in this area are: Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom. Most often, fishing trawlers fishing in the North Sea go to sea for three weeks, of which they spend about 7-10 days actually catching fish. Since the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, these trawlers have been increasingly equipped with advanced navigation devices, but also sonar and devices that allow to determine the size of the incoming fish stock and to approximate the depth at which it is located. Of course, for economic reasons, there is also an attempt to reduce their crew, but most often they have from 12 to 20 crew members. As a curiosity, it can be said that fishing in the North Sea reached its peak around 1980, when the annual catches in this reservoir exceeded 3.3 million tons. With time, however, they began to be limited, and in 2002 they were reduced to approx. 2.7 million tonnes.