South Coast What a difference a few years makes!

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Doesn’t seem like a lot of regard paid to the future. Probably a mentality of if I don’t catch it then someone else will so I might as well catch it. And the totally inappropriate quotas and lack of enforcement hasn’t helped. Most I’d expect have made a good living out of it for some years. Ex charter skipper I fished with turned commercial running several boats will have done well if their returns were as indicated, see picture attached. And who can blame them! Should be sitting very comfortably on a nice big nest egg. Just using the quotas that they bought with the boats. Not sure how easy it will be to maintain that sort of income in coming years with dwindling fish stocks.

Many charter skippers have proper jobs and the trips are more like a paid hobby. More rules and regs keep adding to the costs.