Commercial swordfish fishermen use miles of longline and hundreds of baited hooks to target powerful swordfish far offshore.
In this documentary, follow the full process as crews prepare bait, deploy longlines across deep ocean waters, wait through long night sets, and haul the gear back aboard. Watch large swordfish reach the surface, get secured on deck, inspected, packed in ice, and transported back to port for seafood markets and processing.
From bait preparation and longline deployment to heavy deck work and the final landing, this is how commercial swordfish fishing works from ocean to shore.
