Martin, from Grimsby’s fish market, said on David’s Wandering Turnip podcast that while there are about a dozen boats still fishing out of Grimsby, they’re all specialising in shellfish, and all of the white fish for the thriving fish market is frozen and imported from Iceland.
Grimsby’s fresh fish market was once a huge open-air affair, but it’s now conducted in a hygienic indoor environment: “Based on some of the European regulations that were brought in back in the late 90s or early 2000s everything's behind closed doors,” Martin explains.
'I visited town after it was dubbed roughest in UK - but one thing surprised me’ A UK town that was once the home port for the world's largest fishing fleet is now a shadow of its former self.
Podcaster David Burnip discovered there’s still a thriving fish industry in Grimsby – it’s just all going on behind closed doors.
It’s all a far cry from Grimsby’s heyday, when trawlermen would spend their free time undertaking epic pub crawls up and down Grimsby’s Freeman street.
