The fishing industry in the Irish Sea has always been important to many of the communities living along the shoreline of County Down. However, by the turn of the 20th Century into the 21st this way of life was very much in decline with huge impacts for the small towns which had been built up on fishing traditions and used it as their livelihood. Amateur footage from the 1970s, when the industry was performing well, is mingled with interviews conducted in 2005 with some of the fishermen from Portavogie who had watched its decline to make this one of the more melancholy segments of Super 8 Stories as a community comes to terms with a changing world. This clip appeared in Series 3, Programme 3 of 'Super 8 Stories'.