The decision by Icelandic company Visir to close three of its processing plants and shift all of its activities to a single location is understandable. It reduces costs, streamlines and rationalizes its activities, and places everything within spitting distance of Iceland’s international airport, around which so much of Iceland’s fresh fish exports now revolve  -- with fish landed yesterday on a plate in Paris or Frankfurt this evening.

It’s as tough as hell on the people who will lose their jobs in Thingeyri, Djupivogur and Husavik.