Little Jacky may very well no longer have a codlin' or haddock baked in a pan when his daddy’s boat come in.
From The Fishing Daily, ‘Russia Ends Decades Old UK Fisheries Agreement for Barents Sea.’
More devastating than the news emanating from Kensington Palace, or rather, not emanating from KP, comes the intelligence to break the heart of every Briton. Russia has cancelled an agreement going back to 1956 which allowed British fisherpersons to access fishing grounds along the coast of Russia’s Kola Peninsula and east of Cape Kanin Nos.
The Barents Sea is one of the world’s most important fishing grounds for cod and haddock.
That’s 560,000 tons of fish down the Swanee. As if the price of family Cod and Chips wasn’t already well into second mortgage territory then this agreement termination will probably put the kybosh on Britain’s favourite meal
One source noted that Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin in a ya -boo -sucks to the UK said;
“The shameless English had been eating [our fish] for 68 years. They have imposed sanctions on us, while 40% of their diet, their fish menu, comes from our cod. Let them now lose some weight,”
A popular social media meme which is too rude to repeat here but which warns against the unwelcome consequences of actions would seem to apply as the reasons the Russians rescinded the UK fishing rights was because of the UK’s decision in March 2022 to deprive Russia of ‘most favoured nation’ trade status, in a move to punish Russia over the Ukraine conflict. Other British sanctions included import tariffs on hundreds of Russian products.
Environmentalists may be clapping their hands on behalf of all the fish that will no longer end up on dinner plates but this is a global capitalist society and where something or someone can be exploited for profit then it will be so. Some Russian capitalists will already be clapping their hands now that perfidious Albion can no longer appropriate profits from Their Fish. So the harvesting, or overharvesting, of the sea will continue one way or another.
A Pew Research 2002 study found; ‘More Than 100,000 Fishing-Related Deaths Occur Each Year.
‘Fishing has long been known as one of the world’s most dangerous professions, but a new study by the FISH Safety Foundation, commissioned by The Pew Charitable Trusts, suggests that the problem far exceeds previous estimates. According to this research, more than 100,000 fishing-related deaths occur each year—three to four times previous estimates. Serious injuries and abuses, including child labour and decompression sickness—for example, from workers being forced to make repeated deep dives to harvest lobster—are also well-documented across the sector.
Further, while fishing can be inherently risky, the study draws attention to the harsh reality that many of these deaths were, and are, avoidable. Incredibly, few were even officially recorded. Insufficient and unenforced safety regulations are a key challenge, but the study also points to a convergence of other major factors that leads individuals to risk their lives and die on the water. These factors include scarcity of fish due to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, overfishing, and climate change, and, for many fishers, the added desperation caused by poverty and food insecurity challenges driving them into IUU fishing practices. The study shows that these deaths and injuries disproportionately victimize impoverished people, including children, in low-income countries, which is a major reason they are so seldom noted.’
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