Editorial 61 - In late August, the Guardian . . .
In late August, the Guardian ran a story about a court case brought by Defra against six trawler crews operating out of Newlyn in Cornwall. An appeal is awaited; the seventeen involved making an unlikely bunch, ranging from a former policeman to an eighty-four-year-old woman - the crime they are said to have committed is to have landed fish such as cod, hake and monkfish in excess of their quotas and to record their sale as ‘non-quota’ fish, such as ling, turbot and bass. Central to the case is the lady who acted as agent for the boats involved. Her family business forms the heart of the Newlyn fishery and its collapse would rip the heart out of it, should the appeal fail.

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