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Credit: David Thompson/FAO
The one matter that Thomson's chart doesn't show is who eats the fish. One can be reas-
onably confident that fish caught by the small scale sector are feeding local people (though
not necessarily all local people) and contributing to a region's food sovereignty. The global
fleet of factory trawlers, on the other hand, is an engine for hoovering up protein in cer-
tain parts of the world and ferrying it to consumers thousands of miles away who have the
wherewithal to pay for it. And the flow of protein is from the waters of people who need it
to the tables of people who don't.
Sacred Cows and Infernal Goats
The term 'waste' is interesting, not so much for its derivation, from the Latin vastus
meaning desolate, as for the modern meanings that have subsequently been assigned to it.
Waste originally signified land that wasn't worth owning - in economists' language, land
that is so worthless that it doesn't command any rent: hence anyone can use it. As well
as tracts of heathland, bog or seashore, waste can include balks and banks between fields,
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