How true can it be when supermarket frozen fish is labelled as “line caught?
I think you can trust this. I saw a TV programme where the presenter spent a day with such a fisherman. Yes, they were using fishing lines but it was quite efficient (compared to what you might think). They dropped a line with several bait pieces and pulled them up, taking the fish off as they pulled it in. I think each person caught over 100 fish a day. The fish were kept in water on the boat, and then when the boat returned to shore, the fish were put into crates with ice and driven to a wholesale market and sold.
