There’s profit if we manage fishing

A LONG time ago, when I was a student, my life was characterised by long summer vacations during which I had no money.

I compensated for this by doing some commercial fishing. I worked my own small boat off the south coast and, one summer, worked on a larger boat in the north east.

My strongest memory of those long ago summers is the incredible richness of our inshore waters, the sheer volume of the life they supported. Of course, this is no longer true. Today those same waters are like a desert.