Fishing

The Scottish Fishing Industry exports a staggering £572 million each year

A recent Landward episode featured the Fishing industry :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04445n7/landward-20142015-episode-8

Some interesting pieces of reading about Fishing :

 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/YOU+HAVE+NO+BALLS+MINISTER%3B+Cod+Crusaders+blast+Government+fisheries...-a0109051708

http://forargyll.com/2014/07/fishermens-chief-has-courage-to-say-he-felt-salmond-response-to-be-intimidatory/  (2014 - Alex Salmond) 

http://www.businessforscotland.co.uk/controlling-our-future-scottish-fishing-and-the-need-for-independence/ 

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1992/dec/09/fishing-industry 

http://www.newsweek.com/why-cod-are-vanishing-155337 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/britains-fishy-role-in-the-quotahopping-scandal-1315516.html 

http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/snp-in-threat-to-block-foreign-fishing-boats-from-north-sea.21443529

(and for interest here is a really old text - https://archive.org/stream/valueandimporta01thomgoog/valueandimporta01thomgoog_djvu.txt)

UKIP of all people have been representing fishing quite well in EU parliament so it seems :
http://nigelfaragemep.co.uk/pages/get-involved/campaigns/hughs-fish-fight.php

And at 20th April - this does not look too promising - an unelected Tory Peer with no experience of the fishing industry... this is a major industry - not a plaything for a Tory trainee to practise negotiating skills !!  Shame we lost the MEP Lib Dem Ross Finnie - who did well for Agriculture in Scotland - could he have represented us on this ?
http://www.thenational.scot/politics/massive-snub-as-tory-peer-is-chosen-for-eu-fisheries-talks.2172

In previous negotiations Scottish major fishing industry was let down - the days of the Cod Crusaders - let down by Ben Bradshaw of Labour

And more recently, the Dutch and Spanish contingents actually came across at end of negotiations to sympathise with the Scottish Fishermen....