Well, that's all the sea fish that were trying to keep their heads down and avoid being noticed now put on the commercial skippers' list. Gurnard, pouting, sandeels, grey mullet... all now on restaurant menus and doomed. How depressing.
The whole thing, actually - running that huge 33-foot catamaran all day to the Channel Isles to catch a handful of pouting and some gurnard shows just how bad sea fishing has become; they should have saved the fuel and done the planet a favour.
One of the bass he took looked undersized. One of the mullet he clobbered was 4lb or so, and would have taken 15 years to get that size. I think I'll write to HFW and tell him what an ar$e he is.