Archie Fisher wrote The Final Trawl “inspired by a pair of rusting decommissioned trawlers off Scrabster Harbour” and recorded it in the 1970s for an album on Tommy Makem and Lian Clancy's Blackbird label that was never released. Several decades later the recording masters were rediscovered, and he included this and some other songs as bonus tracks of his 2008 album Windward Away. It was also included in 2009 on the Greentrax anthology People and Songs of the Sea. Archie Fisher also sang it in 1988 on his album with Garnet Rogers, Off the Map, where he noted:

The death of a boat is the first casualty in the decline of a fishing community. This song is dedicated to all of the hardy fisherfolk at sea and ashore.

Now it's three long years since we made her pay
    Sing haul away, my laddie-o
And the owners say that she's had her day
    And sing haul away, my laddie-o