 They were also sufficiently robust to be able to tow large trawls in deep water.The great trawling fleet that built up at Brixham, earned the village the title of 'Mother of Deep-Sea Fisheries'.This revolutionary design made large scale trawling in the ocean possible for the first time, resulting in a massive migration of fishermen from the ports in the South of England, to villages further north, such as Scarborough, Hull, Grimsby, Harwich and Yarmouth, that were points of access to the large fishing grounds in the Atlantic Ocean.