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The room the crew sleeps in is a porthole less, fetid little cell - like a Scarborough caravan which has been wet and fishy for 20 years and used as a changing room for the local rugby team.  Fag stained plastic, wood grain-effect, laminated chipboard, vinyl and foam.  A tiny wet room below the water line and next to the ships engine. Tim tries to make his bunk more comforting with pictures of his family and reading the local news.In 1999, Photojournalist Peter Dench spent five days onboard The Allegiance, a 60 foot UK Scarborough-based trawler, fishing the North Sea, with a crew of five.  The future has since become extremely bleak for the English trawler men; huge areas of the North Sea have been declared \'off limits\' and fishing quotas have been slashed in an attempt to rescue dwindling North Sea stocks from the point of extinction.  These measures have jeopardised the jobs of those in the industry and put dependent towns, like Scarborough, on the brink of ruin.Dench returned to The Allegiance in 2005 to be reunited with the crew and to find out how the decline of the North Sea fishing industry has affected their lives.

The room the crew sleeps in is a porthole less, fetid little cell - like a Scarborough caravan which has been wet and fishy for 20 years and used as a changing room for the local rugby team. Fag stained plastic, wood grain-effect, laminated chipboard, vinyl and foam. A tiny wet room below the water line and next to the ships engine. Tim tries to make his bunk more comforting with pictures of his family and reading the local news.

In 1999, Photojournalist Peter Dench spent five days onboard The Allegiance, a 60 foot UK Scarborough-based trawler, fishing the North Sea, with a crew of five. The future has since become extremely bleak for the English trawler men; huge areas of the North Sea have been declared \'off limits\' and fishing quotas have been slashed in an attempt to rescue dwindling North Sea stocks from the point of extinction. These measures have jeopardised the jobs of those in the industry and put dependent towns, like Scarborough, on the brink of ruin.

Dench returned to The Allegiance in 2005 to be reunited with the crew and to find out how the decline of the North Sea fishing industry has affected their lives.