Season 1 - Episode Guide

Four families experience life as a fishing community at the turn of the 20th century on an Anglesey island, but inexperience and rations quickly lead to frustration.

As the families enter their second week, the men head out to sea to try for a catch - but as rivalries and hunger take their toll, the fragile sense of community starts to fray.

As the weather picks up, the men head out to sea for an extended fishing trip leaving their wives and children home alone, waiting and hoping for their return.

It's the final week for the four families on The 1900 Island, living in a time of hand-to-mouth existence and hard physical graft, at sea and at home. With a last minute haul of fish, everyone is counting down the days. But as the outside world comes calling, modern mechanisation hits their rural idyll, prices plummet and there is a rude awakening for the men and women on the island. They resort to cockling and gathering shellfish to makes ends meet and one family contemplates leaving the community for opportunities elsewhere.