Nice little report on our commercial friends

[Red5]

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cornwall | Fish firm ordered to pay £710,000

 

[5150]

Spotted that one earlier, think it's made even worse that the owner is the former industry president

 

[Red5]

Well the way things are with the powers that be, what are we to expect?

 

[Falcone]

Its people like that , that tars the reputation of honest hard working commercial fishermen.

 

[KeithB]

Am I reading that right? Bass is considered as "lower-value" than Cod?

 

[5150]

Am I reading that right? Bass is considered as "lower-value" than Cod?

I'm guessing it'll be because of the volumes they can sell, fetch a lower price but sell a lot more of them so it works out better profit-wise.

 

[Stores]

"It's not going to be easy to find this sum of money. It's huge, but the case has ended well."

She added: "We haven't got away with it. It's absolute hell to take part in a case like this."


So that's a £4,000,000 profit minus a £776,000 fine which, no pressure here, is equal to a gain of £3,224,000

That's a pretty tidy bank balance for "not getting away with it" Bet it puts loads of others off.