Something completely different

I have not shown you much of the harbor or fishing industries in Iceland, the later one is considered a food industry so it is very much closed to the public.

The big fishing trawlers are mostly owned by the Sea Barons (I named them Sea Counts before - but this is better) and they buy up fishing permits and put the profit into their own pockets. The government (elections next year) is trying to get them to pay more for the permit as it is the property of the nation and the money would be good for the economy.

But this government managed to legalize a new law that allows owners of small fishing boats to fish a fixed load for each month and this is a picture of some of them.

This small harbor is close to the one I mention in the Green Screen I made and can be seen here - and this beautiful Maritime Museum which I have worked for and where the ethnology/folklore department of the University of Iceland held it's Christmas dinner in 2007 - that is 10 lovely ladies and I.

P.S. If you view the Christmas dinner website then picture 28 (third from bottom) is of the famous "cutters" the Icelandic Coast Guard used to cut the fishing gear off the English trawlers which were fishing inside our 50 miles (1972) and then 200 miles fishing limits (1975).