THE opening pages of this issue make somewhat gloomy reading: the fishing industry worldwide is continuing its protests against high fuel costs – and more and more boats are being forced to stay in port. They can’t make trips pay due to the remorseless rise in fuel costs – and that includes the 200,000 boats laid up for a strike in Japan (see back page).
Fuel and food are inextricably
intertwined. In the west we have already seen the cost of living rise significantly as the prices of fuel and food – things we have to buy – are ratcheted up.
Now,
