There is a wide range of television programmes and documentary films on angling, commercial fishing and marine wildlife and writing about the seas and oceans has been a popular topic for authors for centuries. Click on the images below to read our reviews of various books, films and television programmes on sea fishing and related issues.
The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
by Charles Clove
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
by Jonathan Balcombe
Casting Shadows: Fish and Fishing in Britain
by Tom Fort
by Helen Scales
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save Our Oceans
by Charles Clover
by Chris Armstrong
The Unnatural History of the Sea
by Callum Roberts
by John McWilliams
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
(2021)
The End of the Line [review coming soon]
(2009/2017)
Fishing Impossible [ITV]
Trawlermen [BBC]
The Catch [Channel 4/More4]
Trawler Wars [Discovery UK]
Earth’s Wildest Waters: The Big Fish [BBC 2]
Trawlermen Tales [ITV]
Deadliest Catch [Discovery USA]
River Monsters [Animal Planet/ITV]
Wicked Tuna [National Geographic]
King Fishers [National Geographic]
Blue Planet II [BBC 1]