Le Guilvinec harbour, France.

Unloading the catch on the quayside in Le Guilvinec, France.

The fleet leaves between 3am and 5am each morning, returning between 4pm and 5pm the same day.

In the summer months, the returning boats are greeted by hundreds of onlookers, both locals and tourists, to watch the spectacle of the catch being landed and ferried into the market for the fish auction.