Arthur's Hell on High Water

Chef and eco-friendly restaurateur Arthur Potts Dawson is C4's new chef recruit.  He's passionate about the environment and sustainable food, so is not exactly a fan of trawler fishing, where boats fish with huge nets and catch vast numbers of fish, the majority of which end up dead back in the ocean because they cannot be sold. 

Trawlermen risk their lives on a daily basis battling the forces of the ocean to catch those fish that will earn them a living. With fish stocks in crisis, many environmentalists want to put an end to commercial trawler fishing but for the men who do this incredibly dangerous and physical job, fishing this way is about economic survival.

In a bid to understand the realities faced by trawlermen just trying to make ends meet, Arthur takes to the seas for a week to live and work alongside life-long fishermen on a commercial trawler and tests his ethics as he sees first-hand the struggles they face.  He will have to find his sea legs fast and work round the clock to help deliver the right catch.

Learning what it means to do one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, will the experience challenge Arthur's preconceptions, or will he still believe that a fisherman's methods and way of life need to change for the good of our seas?