[Captain.Remy]

'Typical French style' is true: we kinda love to make strikes, it's in our nature and it's being accepted by everyone.
The story is more complicated than that, it's deeper. Fishermen have always been living in poverty, financial crisis or not. They couldn't live on a daily basis with what they caught and how much they sell the fishes. They already asked for a bigger quota, they got it last year: +30%.
For them, it was enough last year but not anymore due to the crisis: they raise the fishes price, no one is buying so they ask to fish more and make the fishes cheaper (that's logic).
However, the government said they won't raise the quotas but will give the fishermen a financial aid, to keep them warm.
Obviously they refused and the strike began. So both parts are right but they are wrong too. Same story over and over again.

To respond to Sheila, it's not about wine and fishes, the issue has always been there and stopping importations from France is stupid, it will not solve the issue.
(And why is it an Australian women complaining when obviously Australia is on the other part of the world and the ports are in Northern France ? Funny lol)

Arista, it's your turn lol