‘To save the industry from complete ruin’: Crisis and response in British fishing 1945-1951

Martin Wilcox

Business History, 2021, vol. 63, issue 3, 353-377

Abstract: Fishing is a small, complex and fragmented industry, which arguably exerts political significance disproportionate to its size. This article traces the prolonged period of depression which affected British deep-sea fishing between the wars, and then a more virulent crisis which erupted in the post-war years. It explores how the industry proved unable to respond effectively, requiring intervention from government which followed a similar pattern to that elsewhere in the economy, albeit tailored to the industry’s peculiar circumstances and idiosyncratic nature.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2019.1576634

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