He ties up and heaves the heavy fish boxes out of the lockers and up onto the pier, then loads them into his van.

He recalled: "I used to deliver grocery orders in a little wagon I made out of fish boxes.

Pingu then hides under the fish box, and when the seagull comes back to take another fish he grabs it.

"Pile those nets and fish boxes along the starboard rail and lie flatbehind them."

And don't forget the superb mechanism [ the bluefish ] we have back there in the fish box, which you caught on a dangerous day.

"Stand him up in the fish box until you get to port," said Bob Jones, a 57-year-old Vietnam veteran with a walrus mustache.

This 26-footer has an integrated swim ladder, head and shower, a live well, full galley, four fish boxes and two bait boxes.

He reached up and took the fish box from the man on deck.

The only recorded injury was to local Police Inspector Matthews, who was knocked on the head by a fish box.

He would have to use fish boxes to step up on to be able to load his sleigh.