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PS until my dad, every generation of my family going back at least 400 years was directly engaged in fishing. My dad worked for a fish merchant and processor and my brother’s apprenticeship was spent mostly servicing trawlers until the firm had to lay people off.


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
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For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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Fishermen did actually receive redundancy money after much wrangling and many many years waiting. My parents were both dead when it finally materialised in the 90's.

Our family received £20,000, which would have been a fortune to my Dad and very welcome when the fishing industry collapsed.

As it happened, the money was shared among myself and my siblings, which none of us needed and we all said how the cash would have been a real boon to my parents.

Such a pity.

There was also a pot of money which was made up of small contributions made by fishermen and collected from their settlings after every trip. When the industry collapsed, the money in the pot mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again.

It was estimated that it contained in the millions. Robbing illegitimate$.
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