I think the fishermen are taking an extremely short-termist viewpoint on such matters. Many of them are quite old and don't care about the future of fishing in the UK beyond the rest of their working life. Reports on local news suggested there was considerable inflexibility of skills (and attitudes theretowards) among the fisherman community, even though the fishermen have tended to be making an extremely low hourly rate for dangerous work.
That's the free market for you. Could well be that Britain has no fishing industry in the future and just imports the vast majority of its fish. I'd cry no tears over this.
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Date: 2002-12-21 05:44 pm (UTC)That's the free market for you. Could well be that Britain has no fishing industry in the future and just imports the vast majority of its fish. I'd cry no tears over this.