Monumental mismanagement? - has the MMO created mackerel mayhem?

Mackerel handliner making for home in a stiff Northerly breeze.

Chaos theory has it that the beat of a butterfly in China can affect the weather here in the UK - however tenuous the link you might be forgiven in thinking that no such similar repercussions could occur between the UK and Iceland with regard to mackerel - but, this week it would seem that, with around 400 tons of mackerel being gifted away to Iceland, the families of around 100 mackerel men now face a winter of starvation as, for many, their sole source of income has been wrested away from them courtesy of a mackerel swap by the MMO.