Two historic moments in UK fishing industry history.
The first records the duty when hundreds of fishermen felt so strongly about their plight that all but a handful took time off from the sea away from earning a living and travelled to the seat of national power to protest.
The second records the time when allowing fishermen to trade both licence and quota was set to become law - if they knew then that one FoC boat would own 22% of the entire fishing quota (by weight) and that by 2018 over 50% of fishing quota would be in non-UK hands would things be different?
The first records the duty when hundreds of fishermen felt so strongly about their plight that all but a handful took time off from the sea away from earning a living and travelled to the seat of national power to protest.
The second records the time when allowing fishermen to trade both licence and quota was set to become law - if they knew then that one FoC boat would own 22% of the entire fishing quota (by weight) and that by 2018 over 50% of fishing quota would be in non-UK hands would things be different?
The last page gives you a chance to compare landings and port prices for the year 1990 in the days when all prices were per stone - which, for the unknowing, 1 stone = 14pounds = 6.4Kg. There are also plenty of faces from South West ports in the photos that can be identified, some long gone.
