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blackpig wrote:
What actually happened was as follows...
The European Union has some peculiar laws designed, on the surface, to protect the environment, fisheries, forestry and other natural resources. The owners of fishing trawlers are, for example, to stay within set quotas for the amounts of any particular fish that they catch. Fair enough - it stops the big russian factory ships from coming in and scooping up every living thing before galloping off to sell it back to us and so on. The stupid thing is this - if you cast your net and catch more than your allotted quota you're obliged to throw the catch, dead and useless, back into the sea.
A local skipper took offense at this - he had fished his quota of monkfish and went out after something else - herring or mackarel. What came up in his net was another load of monkfish. €3,000 worth. By law he was expected to throw the whole lot back into the sea. Instead he took it ashore and handed it out to all-comers. He fed half the county in a scene reminiscent of the loaves and fishes business from the Bible. A mate of mine got a box of fish and shared some with me.
In the meantime the police were sent to arrest the offending piscator. He's still catching fish, selling the legit stuff but instead of throwing the extra fish overboard he takes it to the harbour and gives it away. If he ever is actually arrested there will be major rioting and proper order too.
Common sense...a little uncommon these days...he did the right thing.
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