Much the same with fishing prices go up off season and shrink when we are doing well .
As for buying off the boat its illegal i would lose my licence to fish and likely land myself with a 20 grand fine and maybe a prison sentence to , unless you have a buyers licence ? If you do can you buy enough to cover my optimistically estimated £400 a day running costs ?
That's the crux of it , if it was announced that there was no food left at all right now by midnight fishermen could feed the entire nation , but as is every boat would need thousands of customers just to break even at the base rate we are paid .
Go down your nearest harbour and find a kid with a boat no licence and and nothing to lose , he can get you anything you want risking only maybe a £100 fine because he's not shackled by bureaucracy .