It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.
The film's style has been described as being a "response to avant-garde, Modernist films, adopting formal techniques such as montage – constructive editing emphasising the rhythmic juxtaposition of images – but also aimed to make a socially directed commentary on its subject" (Tate Gallery: Liverpool 2006).
[1][2][3][4] This film also showed that Grierson was not afraid to alter reality slightly in order to have his vision shown.
[5] The film was shown alongside Battleship Potemkin's premiere in London.
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