Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.
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A reminder that more people are employed in the yoga industry than there are registered fishers working in the UK.
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Obvs it is bad for the people that fish if thry can't do that, and there will be some down stream job losses eg net repair etc but is catching fish a major employer in any community these days?
And we would like our catch from the EU pool to be bigger, too.
This deal will probs ly help the fishing industry because there is no point in catching something you can't easily sell and most fish caught in UK waters (herring & mackerel) are bought by the EU.
I hope no-one at UCL is made redundant, but odds are they'll find work again.
If every fishing boat sank today would there be any blighted communities where the fishermen couldn't get alternative employment?
I don't think we can sacrifice a country to save a small industry, but I won't pretend fishing doesn't matter.
To listen to certain portions of the press and Parliament the effect will be akin to the pit closures or the fall of British Leyland.
80% of the fish we eat is imported
80% of the fish we catch is exported
Trade is good. It's no less sustainable for herring to be landed and sold in the EU than the UK. Fish have to be shipped long distances by boat to their markets pretty much by definition.
As a nation we don't eat as much as you'd expect given we're an island. We're happy to eat stuff caught thousands of miles away. Yet catches in our waters are happily bought up in France, Spain etc.
The UK imports most of the fish it eats and exports most of what it catches;
Cod and haddock are UK consumers' favourite fish;
These fish are found in large quantities in the distant waters north of the UK.
Despite Tice’s moaning this morning there’s hardly any fishing industry to speak of in Boston or Skegness.
Boston depends on agriculture and Skeg on tourism.
I shit you not
“Boston - Gateway to Europe”
And yet in a nutshell I get it b/c losses are distinctly concentrated & visible but gains seem amorphous
Will a Coastal Fund alleviate pain & politics though??
(Was tempted to use 'number of people piloting trident submarines' but thats a whole other discourse)