Men leave their fishing village and walk down to the harbour. We see a number of trawlers in the harbour and then focus on one ship as it leaves the harbour, interspersed with a number of views from the ship and shots of gulls circling the sea. The men eventually anchor down and cast herring nets. We see them work on board and then go down and sleep. More shots of the sea at night are shown, intercut with some fish chewing into a net in the sea.

The next day the men pull in the nets while a storm rises. We see them battle against the elements as they catch a number of fish. They then journey back to the harbour, where a number of people are selling fish on the market. We see the fish gutted, then packed and eventually shipped. At the end, a ship delivering the fish is seen to leave the harbour, delivering the locally caught fish to an international market.