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Credits
- Series Producer
- Simon Davies
- Participant
- Andy Giles
- Director
- Kevin Jarvis
- Producer
- Kevin Jarvis
- Executive Producer
- Sam Bagnall
Episode 2 of 3, Toughest Place to be a..., Series 2
Duration: 1 hour
Cornish fisherman Andy Giles gives up his state of the art trawler to travel to the coast of Sierra Leone, where the fishing is done from a dugout canoe.
Living in a small community of mud huts, Andy discovers a very different way of life where a bad day's fishing means a hungry family. Even this precarious lifestyle is now under threat from foreign trawlers that fish illegally in the villagers' waters, taking their fish, destroying their nets and sometimes even sinking their canoes, with tragic consequences.
Through the international language of the fisherman, Andy develops a lasting friendship with his hosts, in a film which highlights the plight of subsistence fishermen around the world.
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