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Article: Fishing crisis could be as catastrophic as FIVE more Ravenscraigs.(Wilsons Week)
- Article from:
- Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2001
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Byline: Andrew Wilson
"I LIVE in Hamilton, so why should I care about the fishing industry?"
How many people asked themselves that question last week, exchanging Hamilton for Falkirk, Airdrie, Glasgow, Perth, Kilmarnock, Cumbernauld or any other inland Scottish town?
If you did... think twice.
The crisis in one of Scotland's oldest and most important industries is desperate. And it matters.
Fishing is 10 times more important to our national economy than it is to the UK as a whole. We have the largest white fish fleet in Europe, ...