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On a clear summer morning a spare room in the trawler agent's offices in Brixham harbour is quickly being converted into a temporary health clinic.

She told BBC Scotland News how she spent her childhood helping her dad on his mobile trawler.

The new footage shows how the chain that the trawlers drag behind them scours the seafloor, forcing the creatures it disturbs into the net behind.

A closure order was put in place in March 2024 to prohibit trawlers netting the tiny fish from English waters, following concerns that sandeel stocks were becoming too low.

In 2023, only two trawlers were still authorized by the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement.