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Post by Dan Dare on Nov 29, 2022 11:07:38 GMT
A new series just finished on BBC1, ‘Trawlermen: Hunting the Catch’. Each episode follows three fishing vessels going about their business searching for lucrative catches in British waters. One curious aspect of the business is that they don’t seem to be going after species which have a market in Britain. The last episode we saw had a state-of-the-art trawler looking for mackerel in the North Sea off Shetland. Once it caught its quota of 1300t it steamed to Norway for a rendezvous with an agent who bought the lot for onward shipment to Korea’s sushi industry. Other prized catches included scallops, cuttle-fish, brown crabs, whelks, sole and monkfish, all intended for export. The only catch intended for domestic consumption was pollock, which Mrs D advises is what they make fish fingers from. Funny old business eh. But also striking, in an age when females are vying for careers as Rugby League professionals, commandos and infantry-persons, submariners, airline pilots, riot police, firefighters and HGV drivers, is the total absence of persons of gender amongst the crews. Very curious indeed when you learn that deckhands can make £1000 or more for a week at sea. I wonder why. And why aren’t the diversity operatives clamouring for more female representation in Britain’s fishing fleet? |
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Post by totheleft3 on Nov 29, 2022 17:46:15 GMT
Maybe there all fishermans wife's
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Post by Dan Dare on Nov 30, 2022 11:18:56 GMT
Well they're certainly not working as deckhands or even trawler skippers. It's hard to come up with a list of other occupations with such low female participation. Abbatoir worker, maybe, fatberg technician perhaps and those guys who fix undersea oil well blowouts. That would be about it.
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Post by Red Rackham on Dec 1, 2022 8:33:41 GMT
A new series just finished on BBC1, ‘Trawlermen: Hunting the Catch’. Each episode follows three fishing vessels going about their business searching for lucrative catches in British waters. One curious aspect of the business is that they don’t seem to be going after species which have a market in Britain. The last episode we saw had a state-of-the-art trawler looking for mackerel in the North Sea off Shetland. Once it caught its quota of 1300t it steamed to Norway for a rendezvous with an agent who bought the lot for onward shipment to Korea’s sushi industry. Other prized catches included scallops, cuttle-fish, brown crabs, whelks, sole and monkfish, all intended for export. The only catch intended for domestic consumption was pollock, which Mrs D advises is what they make fish fingers from. Funny old business eh. There's a similar programme about the Alaskan fishing industry. As far as trawler crews are concerned it's the same detail, all white men. Some of them travel from all over the US for an opportunity to make big bucks on an Alaskan trawler. But it does seem to be a job that attracts white men only. |
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