Great turnout in Peterhead for the first Real Fish Fight campaign meeting at Peterhead.
Here's a comment from John Buychan, one of the organisers:
#Realfishfight wants to make it clear that this is not a Scottish campaign or a fisherman's campaign. Realfishfight is a fishing community campaign. I would like to hear from other fishing communities anywhere.
How has your fishing community been affected by never ending cycle of cuts. l left school at 16 and went to the fishing all my friends who were fishermen. Not one of them are left at the fishing now!!
The fishing industry is but a shadow of It,s former self, and unfortunately this is also reflected in the communities it supports. So what IS needed to turn this negative situation around? Reasons given for this decline have been many. The challenge now is to list up subjects to be addressed and the available/ possible means of alleviating them. SO please make a list of areas to be addressed, and preferably rank them in order of importance. Keep in there. Ian K.
A preliminary meeting was held in Newlyn's Mission yesterday with a view to enlisting the help of Cornwall's newest TV venture and Business Forum.