"T i m" wrote in message
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On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:31:29 +0100, charles
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but, the ingredients needed to be brought in from far away.

Yup, in the case of fish, often from abroad (in the EU) where they
still have migrant workers willing to process the fish and where our
fisherman can land them without huge quantities of paperwork.

Read Fred Normandale's books about life as a fisherman in Scarborough
between the 1960s and 2000s for his views on the ever-increasing bureaucracy
and regulation of the British fishing industry - and his comments about
Dutch mega-trawlers being allowed to fish only a few miles off the British
coast and refusing even to obey the "rule of the road" for vessels at sea.

They are an excellent series of books that portray the good and the bad of
life on a trawler. My only criticism is that in his first book he should
have included a diagram of the various parts of a trawl net (cod-end,
bobbins, boards) and of the winch mechanism on the trawler, since he refers
to these terms a lot. Maybe even a series of diagrams showing what happens
as the net is gradually winched in. It would help understand what is
happening when it all goes wrong.