I don't like eating them, I quickly get bored of looking at them, and I don't see the point of keeping them as pets. After all, aren't pets supposed to return your love for them, rather than just be an ornament?
As for fishermen, I'm perhaps going to speak out of turn here when I admit that they've always struck me as complaining, greedy idiots. Greedy idiots because they are scraping the seas clean of all the fish in them, and complainers because they are always moaning that they are being prevented from taking as much fish as they want.
That is perhaps a bit harsh on them, after all they are trying to make a living in a harsh environment, which they wouldn't be doing if there wasn't a consumer demand to be met.
More than fishermen, though, I despise fish farmers. But that's a whole different story.
In January, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is starting a new campaign called Fish Fight in which he is attempting to get the EU to change their mind about "discarding", the practice of throwing back any fish caught which does not meet the quota. The problem is that the fish are already dead, so we are literally throwing away food.
There's a campaign site where you can sign a letter to the EU Commissioner and there will be a TV series in the next few weeks.
Here's a video promoting the campaign:
Of course, the real solution to the problem is for us not to consume so much fish in the first place. But that's just crazy talk, isn't it?
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