it's nearly six in the morning and the sun is rising over the western baltic sea fisherman andreas luke and his colleagues have been on the water for three hours they barely notice the sky instead they're busy heaving the nets full of herring on board it's back breaking work look as mean fishing ground as the bay of crabs fight the herring returned here in the spring to spawn. here again has not been fucked up that we're going to leave his catch area now because the herring a finish spawning we can see from the dirty anchor that their work here is done the area is full of rowan mills at home or move so little gets ten minutes further east to cast his nets out the european union has lowered this year's catch quota by thirty nine percent that means that fishermen will earn over a third less income from their core business today look as caught around two tons of herring that's around nine hundred euros in revenue. he's now almost reached his seventy ton limit so he can only fish for herring one more time this year. for most of my knowledge a cold i'd have to return to the old quota of one