fishing as it used to be before the court has. grimsby around four and a half hour's drive north of london. caught in an eddy on the edge of globalisation grimsby was once home to one of the world's largest fishing fleet. but that was before the card wars of the one nine hundred seventy s. that ceded fishing grounds to iceland and it was before britain joined the european common market in one thousand nine hundred ninety three. was a major reason why seventy percent of grimsby voters chose to leave the e.u. britain was a great country we always did our own thing we always stood up for ourselves we always thought. we had everything trade the way. but the docks along the river humber still host a large fish processing industry from here large volumes of cod smoked tadic and